The Complete Savoy Sessions

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Album Info

Release Date: 1999

Label: Savoy Jazz

1-1 to 1-9: March 13, 1958.
1-10 to 2-4: May 13, 1958.
2-5 to 2-9: June 24, 1958.

All surviving takes of all three Savoy sessions led by Wilbur Harden and including John Coltrane have previously been issued, although this is the first time all have been compiled in the same package. The earliest original-Savoy album also used the name of Tommy Flanagan; two of the partial reissues have jointly featured Coltrane and Harden; a third was under Coltrane only.

1-2 to 1-5 and 1-7 originally issued on Savoy MG 12127 (Wilbur Harden, John Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes - Mainstream 1958).
2-6 to 2-8 originally on MG 12131 (Wilbur Harden - Jazz Way Out).
1-10, 2-3, 2-4 and 2-9 originally MG 12136 (Wilbur Harden - Tanganyika Strut).
1-1, 1-6, 1-8 and 1-9 first appeared on Savoy SJL 2203 (John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden - Countdown).
2-2 was first on Savoy SJL 1110 (John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden - Dial Africa).
2-1 and 2-5 were first released on SJL 1115 (John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden - Gold Coast).

Comes in a Digipak format