Gold Coast (album)

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Gold Coast
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Released1977
RecordedMay 13 and June 24, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre Jazz
Label Savoy Records
SJL 1115 [1]
Producer Ozzie Cadena

Gold Coast is a compilation album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden, released in 1977 just after Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions , featuring pieces recorded during the two 1958 sessions that produced Tanganyika Strut and Jazz Way Out . [2] [3]

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In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "John Coltrane's Savoy recordings with fluegelhornist Wilbur Harden are enjoyable but not particularly innovative... Despite all of the emphasis on Africa in the song titles, the music is essentially American bebop featuring Coltrane, Harden and trombonist Curtis Fuller; Harden and Fuller contributed two originals apiece. This album is a companion of Dial Africa." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Tanganyika Strut" – 9:57
  2. "Dial Africa" – 8:42
  3. "Gold Coast" – 14:34
  4. "B.J." – 4:32

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