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John Coltrane: His Life and Music
by Gene Lees
John Coltrane: His Life and Music Lewis Porter Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472101617 Thirty-one years after John Coltrane died, just short of forty-one years old, he remains an enigma, not to only to me but to the various persons who have attempted to capture his character in books. There ...
John Coltrane: Blue Train
by Mark Schlack
Imagine that New York’s 52nd Street jazz scene never died and John Coltrane lived his life out there, playing an endless series of jam sessions. What if he had never passed through the portal of Miles’ and McCoy’s modal playing, down the rivers of Africa and the Middle East, propelled by the Black experience of the ...
Ole
Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Olé (Coltrane); Dahomey Dance (Coltrane); Aisha (Tyner); Original Untitled Ballad
(To Her Ladyship).
The Penny Whistle Tapes
Label: Gambol
Released: 2003
Track listing: Medley: Pennies from Heaven - Penny Arcade - Penniless Pauper from Poughkeepsie - A Penny for
Your Thoughts/ Trane Whistle/ Copper Penny Keepsake/ Lincoln's Log Cabin Blues/ Whistle While
You Work/ Lazy Bird.
John Coltrane: Ole
by John Ballon
John Coltrane never stopped wondering what he wanted from music, and never stopped pushing the boundaries. Trane genuinely strove to be saintly in his devotion to the divine, creating a body of deeply spiritual music that has come to be regarded as holy by his many devotees. His musical legacy was officially consecrated in 1971, when ...
Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...
John Coltrane: The Penny Whistle Tapes
by Derek Taylor
The late 1950s were a tremulous time for John Coltrane. In the stark wake of withering heroin addiction, he finally stood stalwartly clean and sober. The future lay wide open and uncertain, replete with possibilities. An all consuming musical quest was about to begin.After hooking up with Monk for an extended engagement at New ...
Illumination
by AAJ Staff
It comes as a quiet blink in the dark, a sudden wash of color, or sheer blinding intensity. The best thing is, it happens without any warning. That's the sublime power of music created in the moment, always teetering on the edge of unpredictability. Once you've make that leap enough times, you'll find yourself addicted.
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
by Joel Roberts
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album Ashley Kahn (foreword by Elvin Jones) ISBN: 978-0142003527 Viking/Penguin 2002 Few recordings in jazz have the mystique of A Love Supreme. Nearly 40 years after its release it's still revered by jazz fans as a work ...
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