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The Virtues of Jazz

Read "The Virtues of Jazz" reviewed by Douglas Groothuis


Any jazz aficionado knows the musical virtues of jazz, whether they are a musician, a jazz writer, or simply a committed jazz listener. In classical Western thought (that is, in the musings of cats like as Aristotle and Plato), a virtue is a kind of excellence in performance that flows from a settled habit. One who plays the flute as it ought to be played--the proper tone, pitch, and timing--displays a virtue or sharp skill in that musical instrument. One ...

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A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

Read "A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters" reviewed by AAJ Staff


John Coltrane A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters Impulse! Valutazione: * * * * * Secondo il frequentato sito Discogs di versioni in CD e ristampe varie di A Love Supreme ce ne sono ormai parecchie, come è anche comprensibile trattandosi di uno dei dischi simbolo del jazz moderno. The Complete Masters include, oltre alle tracce stereo uscite nel disco originale, anche “Pursuance" e “Psalm" in versione mono, altri frammenti della ...

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Book Review

Free Jazz / Black Power

Read "Free Jazz / Black Power" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Free Jazz / Black Power Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli 256 Pages ISBN: ISBN 978-1-62846-039-1 University Press of Mississippi 2015 Forty four years after its publication in French, Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's thought-provoking, fiercely intellectual book Free Jazz/Black Power finally finds its way into English, thanks to Grégory Pierrot's translation and the good folk at University Press of Mississippi. The four words of the title reference four histories that ...

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Album Review

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

Read "A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters" reviewed by Mark Corroto


For many a jazz fan John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is their personal desert island pick, the one recording they would not hesitate to live their days out listening to. Recorded on December 9, 1964, the session has endured as a document of the saxophonist's faith, as it was the proclamation of his rebirth from the jazz life of alcohol and substance abuse. The 33-minutes that are A Love Supreme come as close to a musical paragon as ...

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Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion

Read "Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion" reviewed by Jason Bivins


Spirits Rejoice! (Oxford University Press, 2015) presents a critical study on jazz and American religion from the 1940's to the present, and engages the religiosity and spirituality of America's foremost jazz musicians. The book features over 200 jazz musicians and is the first book solely dedicated to unpacking the history of jazz and religion in America. The author is Dr. Jason Bivins, a well-respected professor of philosophy and religion at North Carolina State University. This excerpt is from chapter five ...

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Avvistamenti coltraniani

Read "Avvistamenti coltraniani" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Se ci fosse bisogno di soppesare una volta di più quanto la memoria, le stimmate di John Coltrane siano ancora terribilmente di attualità ad ormai quasi mezzo secolo dalla sua comparsa, basterebbe mettere nel lettore questi cinque CD, incisi nel biennio che va dal giugno 2012 al giugno 2014 e messi sul mercato a seguire. Paul Dunmall, Tony Bianco Homage to John Coltrane Slam Productions 2015 Valutazione: * * ...

Album Review

The John Coltrane Quintet Featuring Eric Dolphy: So Many Things: The European Tour 1961

Read "So Many Things: The European Tour 1961" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Scrigno delle meraviglie questo cofanetto di 4 CD che raccoglie materiale da quattro concerti del denso tour europeo di John Coltrane dell'autunno del 1961. Degli oltre trenta concerti stipati nelle tre settimane di tournée troviamo qui (con qualità di riproduzione ovviamente non eccelsa, ma mediamente buona) la musica che poterono ascoltare dal vivo gli spettatori di Parigi, Copenhagen, Helsinki e Stoccolma, pronti a dividersi, così come i critici, tra adepti e detrattori. Dire oggi che ...


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