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The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: A Love Supreme
by Jack Bowers
I have to start this review with a confession. I've never heard John Coltrane's original recording of A Love Supreme. Sorry; Trane and I parted ways after some of his earlier successes ( Blue Train, Settin' the Pace, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things ), so I must appraise the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's re-creation of the saxophonist's “monumental work" strictly on its own merits. As big band jazz goes, this is pretty good, thematically engaging and musically ...
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by Jim Santella
Getting into the spirit of John Coltrane's seminal suite of reverential devotion, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra explores classic jazz from an emotional angle. They swing, and they move cohesively with a big band's full sense of itself; however, the orchestra does not succeed fully in bringing the kind of emotional feeling to the forum that Coltrane had intended. The band is more interested in pursuing its rhythmic groove and maintaining its balanced orchestration than in creating emotional impact.
Continue ReadingLincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis: A Love Supreme
by John Kelman
In the last year there's been a resurgence of interest in John Coltrane's epochal A Love Supreme. First saxophonist Branford Marsalis' quartet released a live DVD with an incendiary version of the suite, demonstrating with the same instrumentation how an ensemble could be reverent without being imitative, capturing the essence of the piece without sounding like a weak copy. Now brother Wynton has addressed the piece, reinterpreting it in a larger context with the Lincoln Center Jazz ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
The Marsalis brothers are going to single-handedly turn John Coltrane's crowning achievement into a jazz standard. Branford Marsalis recently released a DVD/CD set of his quartet's performance of the jazz suite, recorded live in Amsterdam at Bimhuis Jazz Club. Now younger brother Wynton has provided the suite with a new spin, a big band treatment arranged by Marsalis for his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. The suite opens with the familiar four bass notes that are followed by a ...
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