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After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2019
Track listing: Blues Minor; Bakai; Afro Blue; After the Rain; Africa; Pursuance.

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A John Coltrane Birthday Salute by Saxophonist Teodross Avery

A John Coltrane Birthday Salute by Saxophonist Teodross Avery

In honor of John Coltrane's birthday, Teodross Avery shares an alternate take of Coltrane's “Africa". Another version appears on After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane, released on Tompkins Square in May (2019). The title track (listen here) is the #1 “Top Listened" track of 2019 on All About Jazz. The CD and LP both sold ...

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After the Rain

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Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2019
Duration: 04:31

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News: Recording

Teodross Avery's 'After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane' (Tompkins Square) Out Now

Teodross Avery's 'After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane' (Tompkins Square) Out Now

In the beginning there was John Coltrane. Growing up in a family that listened to a vast and global array of music, Teodross Avery experienced an epiphany at 13 when he first heard Trane’s epochal harmonic steeplechase Giant Steps. Taking up the tenor saxophone, he emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most powerful young ...

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Teodross Avery: After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

Read "After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


All modern saxophonists worth their salt relate to John Coltrane in one way or another. Coltrane pushed boundaries and showed new paths in music and never stopped searching. Fortunately, new generations have been ready to take over and pick up on the lessons Coltrane taught. One of them is saxophonist Dr. Teodross Avery. ...

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The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2017
Track listing: Minor Meeting; Nica; Sonny's Crip; Blues Mambo; Blues Blue; Junka; My Conception; Sonia; Nica (take 2); Sonia (take 3); Minor Meeting (take 10); Junka ( take 1); Nica (take 4); Minor Meeting ( take 9).

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Clark Trio: The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

Read "The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Jazz history tends to favor the great musical innovators whose stylistic leaps have formed the ever-changing vocabulary of jazz: the improvisational wonder of Louis Armstrong, the free flight of Charlie Parker, the chameleon-like transformations of Miles Davis, and the singular piano world of Thelonious Monk. For long a time, Monk, along with Bud Powell, has been ...

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Harvey Mandel: Snake Pit

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2016
Track listing: Snake Pit; Space Monkeys; NightinGail; Baby Batter; JackHammer; Buckaroo; Before Six; Ode to B.B.

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Harvey Mandel: Snake Pit

Read "Harvey Mandel: Snake Pit" reviewed by Doug Collette


One of the major proponents of contemporary blues-rock guitar, Harvey Mandel has some impressive credentials nonetheless. Cutting his teeth in the Chicago well-spring of the blues, he collaborated with harpist Charlie Musselwhite, among others in that scene and subsequently became a pivotal member of Canned Heat around the apogee of their career, including their appearance at ...

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Just A Closer Walk With Thee

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Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 0
Duration: 03:58


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