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John Coltrane: Interstellar Space

Read "Interstellar Space" reviewed by Sacha O'Grady

by Sacha O'Grady
May 29, 2016

As the '60s dawned it would seem that John Coltrane was determined to permanently turn his back on being an accessible artist. Often considered as one of his most influential works, Interstellar Space is certainly not for everyone. Fans of My Favorite Things and Blue Train may struggle with its seemingly random and “multidirectional" explorations. Also, those who might be expecting this half solar system suite to be based on Gustav Holst's The Planets will be sorely disappointed. Because Coltrane's ...

Hi-Res Jazz

Blue Note On Blu-Ray

by Mark Werlin
April 22, 2016

Jazz music is best appreciated with “big ears" and an open mind. Just as exposure to new music casts older, familiar works in a different light, newer formats can expand a listener's perspective on the strengths and limitations of the original recordings. SACDs, Blu-Ray discs and hi-res downloads accurately represent the affective details of jazz performance: the swish of brushes on a snare; the subtle inflections of a trumpet player's phrasing; the timbre that distinguishes one bassist's instrument--and ...

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Genius Guide to Jazz

How to Listen to Jazz

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
April 15, 2016

After surviving a near-fatal marriage and returning once again to the Original Geniusdome, the site of some of my best work (remember that really funny thing I wrote about jazz that time?), I recently took some time to reflect upon my contributions to Our Music. As the Dean of American Jazz Humorists©®, I have long considered it my responsibility both to demystify some of the more esoteric aspects of jazz and to loosen the death grip of the zealot so ...

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The Virtues of Jazz

by Douglas Groothuis
April 12, 2016

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 ...

Lyrics

A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2016

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 ...

Book Review

Free Jazz / Black Power

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2015

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 ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

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

by Mark Corroto
November 10, 2015

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 ...