Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions

Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions
Compilation album by John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden
Released	1977
Recorded	May 13 & June 24, 1958 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre	Jazz
Label	Savoy SJL 1110
Producer	Ozzie Cadena
John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden chronology
Black Pearls (1958) Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions (1977) Gold Coast (1958)

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Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions is a compilation album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden released in 1977, featuring pieces recorded during the two 1958 sessions that produced Tanganyika Strut and Jazz Way Out.^[3]

Track listing[]

1. "Dial Africa" [Take 2, Master] (Wilbur Harden)   – 8:42
2. "Anedac" (Wilbur Harden)  – 5:12
3. "B.J." [Take 2] (Wilbur Harden)  – 4:56
4. "B.J." [Take 3, Master] (Wilbur Harden)  – 4:32
5. "Once in a While" (Michael Edwards (m) - Bud Green (w))  – 9:28
6. "Oomba" (Wilbur Harden)  – 5:31

Personnel[]

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Wilbur Harden – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Curtis Fuller – trombone
• Tommy Flanagan – piano (#1, 6)
• Howard Williams – piano (#2–5)
• Alvin Jackson – bass
• Art Taylor – drums

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