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John COLTRANE / WILBUR HARDEN
The Savoy Recordings
Craft
180 gram vinyl 3xLP box set
Cat: 727516 8
Rel: 16 Nov 26
Jazz
Rel: 16 Nov 26
Jazz
| Side 1 - Track 1. Wells Fargo |
| Side 1 - Track 2. West 42nd Street |
| Side 1 - Track 3. EFFPH |
| Side 2 - Track 1. Snuffy |
| Side 2 - Track 2. Rhodomagnetics |
| Side 3 - Track 1. Dial Africa |
| Side 3 - Track 2. Oomba |
| Side 4. Gold Coast |
| Side 5 - Track 1. Tanganyika Strut |
| Side 5 - Track 2. BJ |
| Side 6 - Track 1. Anedac |
| Side 6 - Track 2. Once In A While |
Before now-seminal titles like Giant Steps and A Love Supreme, American jazz pioneer John Coltrane was a restless 31-year-old with a publishing dispute that kept his own tunes off the music stands. In response, he borrowed Wilbur Harden's and, over three 1958 sessions at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack living room, the tenor legend pushes at the edges of hard bop while Harden's flugelhorn keeps things nice and lyrical. Curtis Fuller's 14-minute 'Gold Coast' was cut in one magical take and 'Rhodomagnetics' is equally magnificent, if not as long. Harden died at 44, so this set is also an overdue spotlight on him.