Tanganyika Strut Explained

Tanganyika Strut
Type:studio
Artist:Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane
Cover:Tanganyika Strut.jpeg
Released:1958
Recorded:May 13 and June 24, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre:Jazz
Length:29:09
Label:Savoy
MG 12136
Producer:Ozzie Cadena
Prev Title:Jazz Way Out
Prev Year:1958

Tanganyika Strut is the last of the three 1958 Savoy recordings made by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden. The album features the two men as leaders, and is Harden's final as a leader. The sessions also produced a couple of alternate takes which can be found on some compilations, most notably the ones featuring the complete Savoy recordings made by Harden and Coltrane together, The Complete Mainstream 1958 Sessions (2009) and The Complete Savoy Sessions (1999).

Track listing

  1. "Tanganyika Strut" (Curtis Fuller)  – 9:57
  2. "B.J." (Wilbur Harden)  – 4:32
  3. "Anedac" (Wilbur Harden)  – 5:12
  4. "Once in a While" (Michael Edwards (m) - Bud Green (w))  – 9:28

Recorded on June 24 (#1) and May 13 (all others), 1958.

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