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The Amazing John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy At The Gate

by Chris May
July 11, 2023

The Impulse! label has released several outstanding John Coltrane live albums since 2000. With the exception of the latest, the sensational John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy: Evenings At The Village Gate (2023), each was recorded in 1965, the year when Coltrane's classic quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, was at its zenith. The 2-CD A Love Supreme: Deluxe Edition (2002), which included a recording, previously available with poor audio only, of Coltrane's signature suite ...

Album Review

John Coltrane: Evenings At The Village Gate

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by Chris May
July 7, 2023

It is important to emphasize, at the outset of this review, that Evenings At The Village Gate is a John Coltrane album of headline significance. Recorded during a four-week run at the New York City club in August and September 1961, the disc is a snapshot of Coltrane partway through the most momentous year of his development. He is in incandescent form from start to finish, leading an astounding sextet completed by multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, pianist McCoy Tyner, twin bassists ...

Radio & Podcasts

Violin Works For Jazz, Coltrane Between Miles And Sheets Of Sound

by David Brown
June 27, 2023

In week's edition we visit vivacious violin works in jazz from Ray Nance of the Ellington Outfit, Billy Bang & His Quartet, Jennifer Curtis with Tyshawn Sorley and a new release form NYC-based South Korean violinist Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim. We'll also check in on some post Miles, pre-Atlantic/Impulse recordings from John Coltrane. Teddy Wilson the king of swing piano gets a shout out, and much more. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet

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by Mark Corroto
May 21, 2023

1955/56 was an inflection point in the career of Miles Davis. The trumpeter and bandleader went from a promising talent to the high profile face of jazz and popular music. The two marathon sessions, May 11 and October 26, 1956, that created Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet along with Cookin', Relaxin' and Steamin' might have been written off by Davis as a mere fulfillment of his contract duties for Prestige Records. He had signed a more lucrative contract with ...

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John Coltrane: After the Rain

by Geno Thackara
May 15, 2023

Famously, John Coltrane's liner notes for his definitive work A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964) were full of praise for the benevolence that's always there “through the storm and after the rain." The (probable) source of that phrase from the previous year is decidedly less famous, but then, it's the kind of calm moment you have to make space to seek out for yourself. No need for his dazzling technicality or free-skronking atonality here, just a simple reminder that the man's ...

Radio & Podcasts

John Coltrane, Dave Liebman and Others

by Jerome Wilson
February 1, 2023

This vintage episode, from November 2021, features John Coltrane playing with Miles Davis and also Dave Liebman interpreting Coltrane's music. Other musicians heard include Dave Brubeck, Archie Shepp, Al Hibbler, and Anthony Ortega. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Cyrus Nabipoor “Huckleberry Madness" from Live At The Marigny Opera House (Self-Produced) 00:54 Dave Liebman Expansions “Mr. Day" from Selflessness: ...

Liner Notes

John Coltrane: Song Of Praise: New York 1965 Revisited

by Mark Corroto
January 18, 2023

Witness [ wit-nis ] an individual who, being present, personally sees or perceives a thing; a beholder, spectator, or eyewitness. Have you ever considered yourself a witness to history? If you answered in the affirmative, let me posit that it was only after time and reflection that this notion occurred to you. Did the soldiers standing in the mud and muck at the Somme during the Great War in 1916 comprehend the significance of the moment? And more ...