Tanganyika Strut

Tanganyika Strut
Tanganyika Strut
Studio album by Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane
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
Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane chronology

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

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

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

Personnel

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Wilbur Harden – trumpet, flugelhorn
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Tommy Flanagan – piano (#1)
Howard Williams – piano (#2–4)
Ali Jackson – bass
Art Taylor – drums

v t e Wilbur Harden
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Mainstream 1958 (with John Coltrane, 1958) Jazz Way Out (with John Coltrane, 1958) Tanganyika Strut (with John Coltrane, 1958)
Compilations	Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions (with John Coltrane, 1958) Gold Coast (with John Coltrane, 1958) Countdown: The Savoy Sessions (with John Coltrane, 1958)

v t e John Coltrane
Discography
Prestige albums	Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron) Tenor Conclave Coltrane Interplay Wheelin' & Dealin' John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio Soultrane Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette The Cats (with Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Burrell) Lush Life Settin' the Pace Standard Coltrane Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane Stardust Dakar The Believer Black Pearls Bahia The Last Trane Two Tenors
Blue Note albums	Blue Train Coltrane Time
Atlantic albums	Giant Steps Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson) Coltrane Jazz My Favorite Things Olé Coltrane Coltrane Plays the Blues Coltrane's Sound The Avant-Garde
Impulse! albums	Africa/Brass Coltrane Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Ballads Impressions John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Crescent A Love Supreme The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Ascension Meditations Kulu Sé Mama Expression Om Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane) Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things Transition Sun Ship Infinity Interstellar Space The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2 First Meditations Dear Old Stockholm Stellar Regions Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Blue World
With Miles Davis	Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet 'Round About Midnight Cookin' Relaxin' Milestones Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Kind of Blue Jazz Track Workin' Steamin' Someday My Prince Will Come Miles & Monk at Newport Basic Miles At Newport 1958 Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I 1958 Miles Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley
With Thelonious Monk	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious Himself Monk's Music Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Live albums	"Live" at the Village Vanguard Live at Birdland New Thing at Newport Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Live in Seattle Live in Japan Afro Blue Impressions The Paris Concert The European Tour Live Trane: The European Tours Bye Bye Blackbird Newport '63 The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up Offering: Live at Temple University A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Compilations	Alternate Takes The Best of John Coltrane The Classic Quartet – Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings Coltrane for Lovers The Coltrane Legacy The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Prestige Recordings Countdown: The Savoy Sessions Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions Feelin' Good Gold Coast The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings High Step The Major Works of John Coltrane Jupiter Variation Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane The Last Giant: Anthology Living Space To the Beat of a Different Drum Trane's Blues Trane's Modes
Compositions	"26-2" "Alabama" "Blue Train" "Central Park West" "Countdown" "Equinox" "Giant Steps" "Impressions" "Lazy Bird" "Moment's Notice" "Mr. P.C." "Naima" "Ogunde"
Documentaries	The Church of Saint Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
Related	List of sessions Coltrane changes Sheets of sound Alice Coltrane (wife) Ravi Coltrane (son) Philadelphia house Dix Hills home 5893 Coltrane asteroid John W. Coltrane Cultural Society Tribute albums Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

v t e Tommy Flanagan
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Overseas (1957) Lonely Town (1959) The Tommy Flanagan Trio (1960) Solo Piano (1974) The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital (1975) Trinity (1976) Alone Too Long (1977) Confirmation (1977–78) Eclypso (1977) Montreux '77 (1977) Ballads & Blues (1978) More Delights (1978) Our Delights (1978) Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1978) The Super Jazz Trio (1978) Together (and Kenny Barron, 1978) Tommy Flanagan Plays the Music of Harold Arlen (1978) Something Tasty (1979) Super-Session (1980) The Standard (1980) You're Me (1980) ...And a Little Pleasure (1981) The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan (1981) Giant Steps (1982) Thelonica (1982) The Magic of 2 (and Jaki Byard, 1982) Blues in the Closet (1983) I'm All Smiles (and Hank Jones, 1983) The Master Trio (and Ron Carter, Tony Williams, 1983) Nights at the Vanguard (1986) Jazz Poet (1989) Beyond the Blue Bird (1990) Flanagan's Shenanigans (1993) Lady Be Good ... For Ella (1993) Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones (1993) Sea Changes (1996) Sunset and the Mockingbird (1997)
With Pepper Adams	Motor City Scene (1960) Encounter! (1968) The Master (1980) The Adams Effect (1985)
With Kenny Burrell	Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956) Swingin' (1956) Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956) All Day Long (1957) Kenny Burrell (Prestige, 1957) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1958) Weaver of Dreams (1960–61) Bluesy Burrell (and Coleman Hawkins, 1962)
With John Coltrane	The Cats (no leader, 1957) Jazz Way Out (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Mainstream 1958 (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Tanganyika Strut (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Giant Steps (Coltrane, 1959)
With Art Farmer	Art (1960) Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1962) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Group Therapy (New York Jazz Sextet, 1965–66)
With Ella Fitzgerald	Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) Ella in Hamburg (1965) Sunshine of Your Love (1968) Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1969) Ella in Budapest (1970) Ella à Nice (1971) Ella Loves Cole (1972) Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972) Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (1973) Ella in London (1974) Fine and Mellow (1974) Montreux '75 (1975) Montreux '77 (1977)
With Curtis Fuller	Jazz ...It's Magic! (1957) Blues-ette (1959) Sliding Easy (1959) South American Cookin' (1961)
With Coleman Hawkins	At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (1960) Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960) Back in Bean's Bag (1962) Desafinado (1962) Good Old Broadway (1962) Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962) Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962) Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962) The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962) Today and Now (1962)
With Milt Jackson	Bags & Flutes (1957) Bags' Opus (1958) Bean Bags (1958) Vibrations (1960–61) Invitation (1962) Statements (1961) Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)
With J.J. Johnson	J Is for Jazz (1956) Blue Trombone (1957) Dial J. J. 5 (1957) First Place (1957) J. J. in Person! (1958) Pinnacles (1979)
With Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus (1956) There Will Never Be Another You (1965) Falling in Love with Jazz (1989) Old Flames (1993) Sonny Rollins + 3 (1995)
With others	Tentets (Franco Ambrosetti, 1985) Boss Tenor (Gene Ammons, 1960) Big Brass (Benny Bailey, 1960) Bash! (Dave Bailey, 1961) Who Is Gary Burton? (Gary Burton, 1962) Jazz Lab (Donald Byrd, 1957) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie, 1976) Paul Chambers Quintet (1957) More Party Time (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Rhythm in Mind (Steve Coleman, 1991) Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Sonny Criss, 1968) Straight Ahead (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1976) Collectors' Items (Miles Davis, 1956) Quiet Kenny (Kenny Dorham, 1959) The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (1960 [1976]) Opening Remarks (Ted Dunbar, 1978) Patented by Edison (Harry "Sweets" Edison, 1960) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) The Song Book (Booker Ervin, 1964) Chromatic Palette (Tal Farlow, 1981) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) Gettin' with It (Benny Golson, 1959) Free (Benny Golson, 1962) The Panther! (Dexter Gordon, 1970) The Swingin'est (Bennie Green and Gene Ammons, 1958) Grey's Mood (Al Grey, 1973–75) It's About Time (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Can't Help Swinging (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) Out of the Afternoon (Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, 1962) Really Big! (Jimmy Heath, 1960) New Picture (Jimmy Heath, 1985) Porgy & Bess (Joe Henderson, released 1997) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Mirage (Bobby Hutcherson, 1991) Bossa Nova Plus (Willis Jackson, 1962) Desert Winds (Illinois Jacquet, 1962) Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960) Let's Swing! (Budd Johnson, 1960) Heart to Heart (Elvin Jones, 1980) Blues for Dracula (Philly Joe Jones, 1958) Detroit – New York Junction (Thad Jones, 1956) Mad Thad (Thad Jones, 1956–57) A Story Tale (Clifford Jordan and Sonny Red, 1961) The Adventurer (Clifford Jordan, 1978) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) Booker Little (1960) Vocalese (The Manhattan Transfer, 1985) Flute Flight (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Flute Soufflé (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Dusty Blue (Howard McGhee, 1960) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Charles Mingus, 1960) De Lawd's Blues (Billy Mitchell, 1980) Smooth as the Wind (Blue Mitchell, 1960–61) The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960) Jeru (Gerry Mulligan, 1962) Jive at Five (Joe Newman, 1960) Good 'n' Groovy (Joe Newman with Frank Foster, 1960) Joe's Hap'nin's (Joe Newman, 1961) Straight Life (Art Pepper, 1979) The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (1956) Limbo Carnival (Dave Pike, 1962) Dave Pike Plays the Jazz Version of Oliver! (Dave Pike, 1962) Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962) Keep Swingin' (Julian Priester, 1960) Wisteria (Jimmy Raney, 1985) Swingin' with Pee Wee (Pee Wee Russell, 1960) Stable Mates (A. K. Salim, 1957) Here Comes Louis Smith (Louis Smith, 1958) Roots (Idrees Sulieman, 1957) Tate-a-Tate (Buddy Tate, 1960) Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960) Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (1965) Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960) ZT's Blues (Stanley Turrentine, 1961) The Frank Wess Quartet (1960) Southern Comfort (Frank Wess, 1962) California Soul (Gerald Wilson, 1968) Pairing Off (Phil Woods, 1956) Rights of Swing (Phil Woods, 1961)
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