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The history section is rife with errors. Coltrane had yet to play with Monk when this album was recorded, and Rollins had yet to record and release Saxophone Colossus. The marathon sessions by the Miles Davis Quintet for Prestige Records that yielded the subsequent four albums with the homophonic titles took place on May 11 and October 26, 1956; Rollins recorded the +4 album with Clifford Brown and Max Roach on March 22, 1956. Coltrane visited the studio on May 24 when this album was being recorded, perhaps just coming over to watch his bandmates play with Rollins, and was asked to sit in on an old-fashioned saxophone duel. Miles, the album to which Coltrane would have received any real attention for the first time in his career, had just been released the previous month but Coltrane was hardly on the radar quite yet. At this juncture, Rollins would have been far better known to jazz audiences than Coltrane.
