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Jazz Way Out

1958 studio album by Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jazz Way Out is an album by jazz musicians Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane, the second of three 1958 Savoy recordings featuring Harden and Coltrane together as leaders. The session also produced an alternate take of "Dial Africa", 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).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jazz Way Out” as 1958 studio album by Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jazz, studio and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2009, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jazz, studio and album providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2009 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jazz Way Out” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.