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John Coltrane's Music Gets New Life at Lincoln Center

by Nick Catalano
November 11, 2012

In jazz history, the often ignored contributions of the great arranger/orchestrators can never be overestimated. It was Jelly Roll Morton's orchestral writing that enabled “Black Bottom Stomp" to soar. In trumpeter Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960), it was Gil Evans' pen that created the magic. At Town Hall, it was Hall Overton's arrangements that brought the audience into the soul of pianist Thelonious Monk. As the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra once again took up ...

Jazz Near Me

John Coltrane: Always A Philadelphian

by Rob Armstrong
February 1, 2012

[Editor's Note: All About Jazz, Hidden City Philadelphia, and the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia have collaborated to present a series of articles on the local jazz scene that John Coltrane inhabited, developed in, and ultimately transcended between 1943 and 1958, when he called the city home.] One of Philadelphia's most interesting properties from a cultural standpoint--the former home of legendary saxophonist and composer John Coltrane--is also one of its most endangered. This year, the house located at ...

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Reassessing

John Coltrane: Kulu Sé Mama

by Chris May
November 30, 2011

John Coltrane Kulu Sé Mama Impulse!1967 It is rare to find Kulu Sé Mama on somebody's desert-island list of recordings by saxophonist John Coltrane. Why, is a mystery. Despite the brooding intensity of the cover photo, the performances are accessible and delightful, and, as an artifact, although it was recorded over three sessions in summer and fall 1965 in New Jersey and Los Angeles, with two lineups, the album hangs together ...

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Album Review

Various Artists: First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary

Read "First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
May 15, 2011

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, ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: The Complete 1962 Copenhagen Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

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 ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: Last Performance at Newport July 2, 1966

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2010

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 ...

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Extended Analysis

John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy: Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert

by Warren Allen
August 19, 2010

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 ...