Mainstream 1958

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Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene
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ReleasedLate May 1958 [1]
RecordedMarch 13, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length37:31
Label Savoy
MG 12127
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane chronology
The King and I
(1958)
Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene
(1958)
Jazz Way Out
(1958)

Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene is a 1958 album by jazz musicians Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane. It is the first of three collaborative albums with Harden and Coltrane as leaders, the other two being Jazz Way Out and Tanganyika Strut . The session produced several alternate takes; all of them can be found on the compilations featuring the complete Savoy recordings made by Harden and Coltrane together, The Complete Mainstream 1958 Sessions (2009) and The Complete Savoy Sessions (1999).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Wells Fargo" 7:26
  2. "West 42nd St." 7:51
  3. "E.F.F.P.H" 5:26
  4. "Snuffy" 9:37
  5. "Rhodomagnetics" 7:11

Personnel

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