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John Coltrane: Live in '60, '61 & '65
by Jim Santella
John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65 Jazz Icons 2007
Filmed in black & white for television, these three European sessions, featuring saxophonist John Coltrane in his prime as leader, run approximately 30 minutes each. One of the most seminal improvisers in jazz, he's represented well here with powerful sound and clear videography.
In Düsseldorf, West Germany, Coltrane delivers five tracks with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy ...
Continue ReadingColtrane: The Story of a Sound
by Joel Roberts
Coltrane: the Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff Hardcover; 250 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12606-3 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new John Coltrane study is really two books in one. The first is a concise, convincing assessment of the evolution of Coltrane's music from his early days as a not particularly distinctive bebop saxophonist through his apprenticeships with Miles and Monk to his seminal achievement ...
Continue ReadingColtrane: Mating Call, Traneing In, Soul Trane & My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport
by Christopher Shoe
Tadd Dameron Mating Call Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Traneing In Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Soultrane Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport Impulse-Verve 2007
Jazz, in some respects, is an intricate recipe ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport
by Chris May
Complete recordings of saxophonist John Coltrane's 1963 and 1965 Newport Festival appearances, most of the material on My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport has been available before. Most, but crucially, not all--the disc includes some eight minutes of previously unreleased music. When you're talking about the incandescent Coltrane quartet of the mid 1960s, that's a serious chunk of time, more like eight light years to hardcore enthusiasts.
The new material forms what is now the ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: The Very Best Of The Atlantic Years
by Chris May
Does the world really need another John Coltrane compilation album? Yes, most certainly. The world needs as many Coltrane albums, of any description, as can be thrown at it. Even the tackiest, most opportunistic Coltrane compilations--take a bow Coltrane For Lovers (Impulse!, 2001) and Plays For Lovers (Prestige, 2003)--are redeemed by the presence of their subject, perhaps the greatest tenor saxophonist who ever lived, and certainly the most influential and enduring.
The Very Best Of The Atlantic Years ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Fearless Leader
by Marc Medwin
2007 is a significant Coltrane year as we commemorate his untimely death in July, 1967. 2006 predated the occasion with a fine release more quietly revelatory than the shocking Monk and Trane At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note, 2005) concert. Fearless Leader groups together, on six discs, the sessions that Coltrane recorded for Prestige between May 1957 and December 1958. These have all been available in one form or another since Last Trane's release in 1965. The present ...
Continue ReadingThe Indefinite Version (of My Favorite Things)
by Bertil Holmgren
'How 'gainst this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?' W. ShakespeareIn connection to the newly released album The John Coltrane Quartet plays The Sound Of Music (Impulse!), this article describes the evolution of the song “My Favorite Things" up until the last entry in the “Olatunji Concert" of 1967, where Coltrane gives a performance that is today evident to stand the test of time much further ...
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