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Coltrane 58: The Prestige Recordings

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 22, 2019

Some fifty-two years since his death, the shadow of John Coltrane looms large in the minds of many jazz fans and musicians. Over the past few years this has been aided and abetted by the fact that his music continues to be repackaged. In the case of last year's Both Directions at Once, some previously unissued sides even brought further clarity to the saxophonist's development at Impulse Records in the mid '60s. Concurrent with the fascination of all-things-Coltrane ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings

Read "Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 10, 2019

Sure these 37 tracks, predominantly standards, blues, and ballads have been released before on such earlier, pre-iconoclast recordings as Black Pearls, Soultrane, Bahia, and Setting The Pace, (Prestige, 1958) but never as chronologically curated as they are presented here on Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings. Certainly an argument can be made that they may not be as revelatory as 2018's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!), but the remastered music pops on this 5CD, 8LP set ...

Radio & Podcasts

Greg Ward, Örjan Hultén and More

by Bob Osborne
January 31, 2019

Brand new releases from Greg Ward and Örjan Hultén plus a compare and contrast between original recordings by John Coltrane and radical reworkings by Tisziji Munoz Playlist Greg Ward Rogue Parade “Metropolis" from Stomping Off from Greenwood (Greenleaf) 00:00 Örjan Hultén Orion “Minus Degrees" from Minusgrader (Artogrush) 08:41 Steve Grossman “Afro Blue" from Homecoming (Cheetah) 17:55 John Coltrane “Wise One" from Crescent (Impulse) 23:19 Tisziji Munoz “Wise One" from When Coltrane Calls, Session 1, Fierce Compassion (Anami ...

Radio & Podcasts

From Newk To Tatum, Trane And Wayne

by Marc Cohn
September 21, 2018

We kick off this week with a question from singer Teri Roiger, answered by John Coltrane (on the newly discovered Both Directions at Once sessions with the classic quartet). This week we also begin our Sonny Rollins celebration with tracks by singer Babs Gonzales from 1949, when Newk was a mere 19-year-old. And have you ever heard Art Tatum's first recordings, backing singer Adelaide Hall? We will celebrate Wayne Shorter --who turned 85 last month --with a rare ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Deluxe Edition

Read "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 22, 2018

The fulsome clarity of the monaural sound on Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album by John Coltrane may be just the gateway necessary to entice those listeners used to a single home speakers, ear buds or their smart phones. After all, as Ashley Kahn notes in his lengthy essay, this double set of compact discs features the iconic saxophonist's classic quartet in its prime, and so deserves to be heard by musiclovers of all stripes and equipment setups, not ...

Interview

Making The John Coltrane Jazz Festival in High Point

by La-Faithia White
July 21, 2018

John Coltrane was born in Hamlet North Carolina on September 23, 1926. When Coltrane was a young child his family moved to the town of High Point, North Carolina where he spent the first seventeen years of his life at 118 Underhill Street. Coltrane showed academic potential at Leonard Street School. Among his classmates he was known as a shy boy who was neat as well as a sharp dresser. Coltrane's situation changed drastically in the winter of ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album

by Luca Canini
July 9, 2018

Non un bootleg registrato alla meno peggio chissà da chi e chissà come; e nemmeno il remake di un remake spacciato per novità assoluta dopo un paio di goffi aggiustamenti e magari una manciata di minuti mai ascoltati prima. Stavolta l'inedito è clamoroso: quattordici brani fissati su nastro dal quartetto di John Coltrane il 6 marzo del 1963 (in formazione tipo: McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) e miracolosamente sopravvissuti a mezzo secolo abbondante di polvere e traslochi. Una scoperta ...