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John Coltrane Quartet: Song Of Praise: New York 1965 Revisited

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by Chris May
March 3, 2022

There are a handful of live performances which, preserved on recordings, have acquired overarching importance in the jazz canon. Charlie Parker's one-night-only appearance at Toronto's Massey Hall in 1953, John Coltrane's weeklong residency at New York's Village Vanguard in 1961 and Miles Davis' at Chicago's Plugged Nickel in 1965 are amongst the longest established. A relatively recent addition is one of Coltrane's gigs at New York's Half Note which, though it happened in March 1965, was not ...

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Coltrane's Progeny: Giant Steps for Late Beginners

by Richard J Salvucci
January 16, 2022

For many listeners, the name John Coltrane is synonymous with the tune “Giant Steps." Whether or not you happen to agree with the proposition that this was the “greatest" or most important composition Coltrane ever recorded--for some, it would be “My Favorite Things," and for still others, “A Love Supreme." This is not an attempt, largely futile, to settle that question. There probably is no answer. The great bassist Jimmy Haslip once said that hearing Jaco Pastorius play ...

Year in Review

Most Read Articles: 2021

by Michael Ricci
January 2, 2022

All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our most popular in 2021. Chris May won the chicken dinner placing six articles in the top 16. John Coltrane: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Building a Jazz Library April 8, 2021 Charles Mingus: An Essential Top Ten Albums Building a Jazz Library July 26, 2021 ...

Radio & Podcasts

John Coltrane & New Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
December 1, 2021

"Acknowledgment" from the new John ColtraneA Love Supreme Live In Seattle highlights this episode of OMJ along with a taste of some excellent new releases from Portugal's Clean Feed Records--Friends & Neighbors, Joao Lencastre & Communion, The Rite Of Trio, and Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble. Also in the Clean Feed batch but played in earlier shows are Gonçalo Almeida's Ritual Habitual and Pedro Melo Alves releases. Chicago trio, Pedway, has returned with their latest after a fairly lengthy hiatus, and ...

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John Coltrane: A Love Supreme - Live In Seattle

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by Mike Jurkovic
November 22, 2021

John Coltrane was moving faster than the speed of sound in 1965. Besides divining his place within the music, the world, his God, he was touring; a two week gig with Thelonious Monk at the Village Gate led to Newport then into a frenetic week in Europe. With the classic quartet plus Archie Shepp, Art Davis and Freddie Hubbard he had just completed the mind-bending sonic assault Ascension (Impulse!, 1966). That anyone could keep up with him or think one ...

Radio & Podcasts

New releases plus a live recording of A Love Supreme

by Bob Osborne
October 7, 2021

This week's show features new releases from Bob Gorry, Dave Mullen, Jared Schonig, Nabou, Javier Subatin and live music from Roy Campbell with John Dikeman, Raoul van der Weide, Peter Jacquemyn, and Klaus Kugel. To kick things off, a taster from a previously unreleased live recording of John Coltrane playing “A Love Supreme."Playlist John Coltrane_"A Love Supreme, Pt. IV -Psalm" from A Love Supreme -Live In Seattle 1965 (Impulse) 00:00 Bob Gorry “Safecracker" from GoBruCcio (NHIC Records) 08:33 Dave Mullen Ensemble ...

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John Coltrane: Chasin' The Trane Revisited

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by Chris May
October 3, 2021

A high-tide moment in jazz history, John Coltrane's November 1-5 1961 engagement at New York's Village Vanguard was exhaustively documented on a series of Impulse albums during the 1960s and 1990s. Those discs have now, in autumn 2021, been supplemented by the Swiss-based ezz-thetics label's magnificent Chasin' The Trane Revisited. Before examining the new album, it is worth getting its provenance straight... The first Impulse album, Live At The Village Vanguard, was released in 1962; it comprised what ...