Bahia is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1965 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7353.
[2] Prestige drew on a stockpile of Coltrane material for several years after his contract had ended without the saxophonist's input.
[3] In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn called the album "a steady, often very good hard-blowing and blues date.
"[4] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Harden's warm, unemphatic trumpet-playing is perfectly appropriate to the setting, and it rarely attempts anything that will scare the horses.
"[6] Tremr's Charlie Wooley described Bahia as "an enjoyable listen," and stated that it "proves that Coltrane manages to be thoroughly entertaining, even at some of his weakest, most traditional moments.