Track listing

Original LP release Jazz Way Out, 1958 (Savoy)

1. "Dial Africa" — 8:42
2. "Oomba" — 5:32
3. "Gold Coast" — 14:33

Personnel

• John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
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   — tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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• Wilbur Harden
  Wilbur Harden
  Wilbur Harden was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer.Harden is most known for his recordings with saxophonists Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane, and also with trombonist Curtis Fuller. One of the first jazz trumpeters to double on flugelhorn, Harden started playing less...
  
   — trumpet
  Trumpet
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  /flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  
• Curtis Fuller
  Curtis Fuller
  Curtis DuBois Fuller is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.-Biography:...
  
   — trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Tommy Flanagan
  Tommy Flanagan
  Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered for his work with Ella Fitzgerald...
  
   — piano
  Piano
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• Alvin Jackson
  Alvin Jackson
  Alvin Ray Jackson is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the New Orleans VooDoo of the Arena Football League.-Early life:...
  
   — bass
  Double bass
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• Art Taylor
  Art Taylor
  Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...
  
   — drums
  Drum kit
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