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Various Artists: First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary
by Chris May
The headline news on this lavishly packaged, four-CD collection of the work of the Impulse! label's founding producer, Creed Taylor, is that it includes three previously unreleased tracks by John Coltrane. These were recorded during rehearsals for what would become the saxophonist's Impulse! debut, Africa/Brass, in 1961. They have a combined playing time of less than eight minutes, but as newly discovered Coltrane recordings are reduced to a trickle with the passage of time, the arrival of any such material, ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: The Complete 1962 Copenhagen Concert
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il concerto documentato da questo doppio CD (Falkonercentret di Copenhagen, 22 novembre '62) compariva già nel megabox in dodici CD Live Trane: Underground (dischetti 7 e 8, per l'esattezza), mentre, su LP, le italiane Ingo e Jazz Up ne avevano inserito fin dagli anni Ottanta tre brani ("Chasin' the Trane," “The Inchworm" e “Every Time We Say Goodbye") in miscellanee varie. Questo - come sempre in casi del genere - per fare un po' d'ordine. Venendo alla musica, servita da ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Last Performance at Newport July 2, 1966
by AAJ Italy Staff
Partiamo da qualche nota esplicativa: il materiale di questo CD riproduce quanto a suo tempo incluso (su vinile) dalla giapponese VideoArts Music in The World According to John Coltrane e, in quanto a discografia ufficiale, si colloca alla vigilia della partenza del quintetto sorto a fine '65 sulle ceneri del golden quartet (unico sopravvissuto, com'è noto, Jimmy Garrison) alla volta del Giappone per le storiche session largamente documentate dalla Impulse! nei vari Concert in Japan, Live in Japan, Second Night ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy: Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert
by Warren Allen
John Coltrane Quintet with Eric DolphyComplete 1961 Copenhagen ConcertGambit Records2009 Without a doubt, saxophonist John Coltrane's band after he left trumpeter Miles Davis in 1960 is one of the defining groups of jazz, and for the year or so during which multi- instrumentalist Eric Dolphy joined Coltrane on reeds, the band became a phrenic and frenetic powerhouse that shook jazz to its core. Between Dolphy's piercingly distinct sound and Coltrane's newly ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Side Steps
by Chris May
John Coltrane Side Steps Prestige Records 2009 The 5-CD Side Steps follows two other Prestige box sets--the 6-CD Fearless Leader (2006) and 5-CD Interplay (2007)--which together catalogue saxophonist John Coltrane's recordings for the label 1956-58. The three boxes, each packed with extraordinary music, chronicle on parallel paths the years during which Coltrane's revolutionary style began to emerge, but before he achieved iconic status first, from 1959, on Atlantic, and then, from ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Kulu Se Mama
by Chris May
A vibrant and accessible album from saxophonist John Coltrane's late-middle period, Kulu Se Mama has been only fitfully on catalogue since its original release in early 1967, and has tended to be overlooked in favor of near contemporaneous works like A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) and Ascension (Impulse!, 1966), elements from both of which it reprises. Kulu Se Mama was included in Verve's Originals series' five-disc box set, John Coltrane: The Impulse! Albums Volume 3 earlier in 2009, and is ...
Continue ReadingColtrane Tributes: Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Khan Jamal, Azar Lawrence & Joel Holmes
by Marc Medwin
Jamaaladeen TacumaColtrane ConfigurationsJazzwerkstatt2009 Khan JamalImpressions of ColtraneSteepleChase2009 Azar LawrenceLegacy and Music of John ColtraneClarion Jazz2009 Joel HolmesAfrican SkiesBlue Canoe2009 John Coltrane was revered during his all-too-brief career and in the 42 years since his death, his legacy has ...
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