Wells Fargo

Wax Love presents a reissue of John Coltrane's Wells Fargo, originally released in 1958. Here is a 32-year-old Coltrane sharing a studio recording session with trumpeter Wilbur Harden and a bunch of young lions such as Tommy Flanagan (piano) Doug Watkins (bass), and Louis Hayes (drums), plus Curtis Fuller (trombone), Ali Jackson (bass) Howard Williams (piano), and Art Taylor (drums) on couple of tracks. In 1958 Coltrane was deeply exploring the hard bop idiom; the saxophonist was still playing with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis and was about to begin leading his own groups.