Results for "John Coltrane"

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 12, 2007

Tornano, ghiottamente appaiate in un solo disco, due celebri apparizioni del quartetto di John Coltrane al Festival di Newport, la prima nel 1963 - era in Newport '63 - e la seconda due anni più tardi - era in New Thing at Newport. Si tratta di lavori sui quali è già stato detto molto, la cui ...

John Coltrane: Live in '60, '61 & '65

by Jim Santella
November 6, 2007

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 ...

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

by Joel Roberts
November 4, 2007

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: Mating Call, Traneing In, Soul Trane & My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport

by Christopher Shoe
September 8, 2007

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: ...

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport

by Chris May
August 16, 2007

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 ...

John Coltrane: The Very Best Of The Atlantic Years

by Chris May
August 5, 2007

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, ...

I Want To Talk About You

Featuring the music of John Coltrane
Duration: 6:49
July 31, 2007

John Coltrane: Fearless Leader

by Marc Medwin
July 19, 2007

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 ...

The Indefinite Version (of My Favorite Things)

by Bertil Holmgren
July 3, 2007

'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 ...

Encounters with Elvin

by Bertil Holmgren
April 25, 2007

As I mentioned in Coltrane's Music, in 1962, I had the good fortune to see and hear the classic John Coltrane Quartet in live performance five nights running, at Birdland in New York City. After Trane, Elvin Jones was the most exciting member of the group. For me then, however, Coltrane was enough, he would do. ...