Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Wheelin' & Dealin'

Frank Wess

Recorded	Sep 20, 1957
Label	Prestige
Catalog	7131
Released	1957
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 470042

The record

Coltrane shares the front line with veterans Quinichette and Wess on this Prestige three-tenor date, Waldron's blues-drenched piano holding it together while Watkins and Taylor swing loose underneath -- hard bop caught just before Coltrane's sound reshaped everything.

Session personnel

Doug Watkins — bass
Art Taylor — drums
Mal Waldron — piano
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
Paul Quinichette — tenor saxophone
Frank Wess — tenor saxophone, flute

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.

1958	Prestige · 7131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove
2008	Prestige · UCCO-9322 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo OJC
1958	Prestige · 7131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Transitional · deep groove
1959	Prestige · 7131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Reissue · deep groove
1972	Prestige — STEREO
1977	Prestige · SMJ-6549M — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1977	Prestige · SMJ-6549 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-672-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-672-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2006	Original Jazz Classics · 00025218667227 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2006	Original Jazz Classics · 00025218667227 — CDr, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Repress, Stereo
2025	Prestige · CR00862 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g
2025	Craft Recordings · CR00862 — File, FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24/192
—	Prestige · PR-7131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue