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Impressions of Coltrane
by Bob Osborne
To mark reaching the 350th edition of World of Jazz a show focusing on the music of John Coltrane with music from the man and also interpretations of his compositions by other jazz artists.... Playlist John Coltrane “Billie's Bounce" from The Prestige Recordings (Prestige) 00:00 Khan Jamal “Blues for P.C." from Impressions of Coltrane (Steeplechase) 10:44 Jack DeJohnette, Matthew Garrison, Ravi Coltrane “Alabama" from In Movement (ECM) 19:51 Teodross Avery “Blues Minor" from After The Rain, A Night For Coltrane ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Blue World
by Victor L. Schermer
Discovering old and forgotten audio tapes of a jazz icon like John Coltrane is always exciting, but their posthumous release can have mixed motives. Taking advantage of the musician's name to make money is less salutary than, say, providing more great music for the public or providing opportunities for enthusiasts and scholars to fill in gaps and trace the musician's progress. Always in the background is the question of whether the musician would have permitted their release if he or ...
Continue ReadingDiscoveries... and Re-Discoveries
by Patrick Burnette
Two major reissues and one highly publicized discovery from the 1960s provide the core of this round's podcast, as the boys discuss the latest album from the John Coltrane Quartet (despite the insistence of one internet denizen that “Coltrane's creativity really dropped off in the seventies") and then look at lavishly repacked work from Sonny Clark and Eric Dolphy. Pop matters rounds things out with discussions of the personal politics of listening to Jimi Hendrix, the latest Beatles remixes, and ...
Continue ReadingA dip in the archive
by Bob Osborne
In a slight change from the usual new music dominated shows a reflective trawl through my jazz collection with a few handpicked gems from my favourite artists... Playlist John Coltrane “Africa" from Africa/Brass (Impulse) 00:00 Eric Dolphy “Alone Together" from Musical Prophet -The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance) 16:56 Ornette Coleman “Comme Il Faut" from Crisis (ABC/Impulse) 31:09 Miles Davis “Mtume" from Get Up With It (Columbia) 46:00 Joe Henderson “Ask Me Now" from An Evening ...
Continue ReadingColtrane 58: The Prestige Recordings
by C. Andrew Hovan
Some fifty-two years since his death, the shadow of John Coltrane looms large in the minds of many jazz fans and musicians. Over the past few years this has been aided and abetted by the fact that his music continues to be repackaged. In the case of last year's Both Directions at Once, some previously unissued sides even brought further clarity to the saxophonist's development at Impulse Records in the mid '60s. Concurrent with the fascination of all-things-Coltrane ...
Continue ReadingJohn Coltrane: Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings
by Mike Jurkovic
Sure these 37 tracks, predominantly standards, blues, and ballads have been released before on such earlier, pre-iconoclast recordings as Black Pearls, Soultrane, Bahia, and Setting The Pace, (Prestige, 1958) but never as chronologically curated as they are presented here on Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings. Certainly an argument can be made that they may not be as revelatory as 2018's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!), but the remastered music pops on this 5CD, 8LP set ...
Continue ReadingGreg Ward, Örjan Hultén and More
by Bob Osborne
Brand new releases from Greg Ward and Örjan Hultén plus a compare and contrast between original recordings by John Coltrane and radical reworkings by Tisziji Munoz Playlist Greg Ward Rogue Parade “Metropolis" from Stomping Off from Greenwood (Greenleaf) 00:00 Örjan Hultén Orion “Minus Degrees" from Minusgrader (Artogrush) 08:41 Steve Grossman “Afro Blue" from Homecoming (Cheetah) 17:55 John Coltrane “Wise One" from Crescent (Impulse) 23:19 Tisziji Munoz “Wise One" from When Coltrane Calls, Session 1, Fierce Compassion (Anami ...
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