John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden
Gold Coast (LP)
LabelSavoy RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
1958 was the year John Coltrane played on absolutely everything, and a handful of the best sessions were made for Savoy under the nominal leadership of the flugelhorn player Wilbur Harden. Harden is the forgotten figure here, a warm, unhurried brass player with a real gift for melody who quit the music within a few years and vanished. The African titles that run through this material are not decoration: this is 1958, and the pull towards the continent that would shape so much of the following decade is already audible in the modes and the ostinatos. Tommy Flanagan holds the piano chair. Coltrane plays as if he has somewhere to be.
Savoy pressing collecting the Harden and Coltrane sessions. Overlooked chapter, and considerably better than its reputation.
Release notes
Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey May 13, 1958 (B2) and June 29, 1958. A1 and B1 previously issued on Savoy 12131 and 12136. Others previously unissued.
| A1 | Tanganyika Strut | 10:00 | |
| A2 | Dial Africa No.1 | 8:03 | |
| B1 | Gold Coast | 14:33 | |
| B2 | B.J. No.1 | 4:53 |
- Ali Jackson
- Bass
- Ron Kellum
- Design, Art Direction
- Art Taylor
- Drums
- Steve Backer
- Executive-Producer
- Wilbur Harden
- Flugelhorn
- Patricia Dryden
- Illustration
- Tommy Flanagan
- Piano
- Ozzie Cadena
- Producer [Original Sessions]
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Recorded By, Mastered By
- Bob Porter
- Reissue Producer
- John Coltrane
- Tenor Saxophone
- Curtis Fuller
- Trombone
