Friday, December 16, 2016

#TaddDameron with #JohnColtrane - Super Jet

Friday, November 25, 2016

#JohnColtrane recorded Meditations ....

Sunday, September 11, 2016

#MilesDavis and #JohnColtrane recorded ....

Monday, September 5, 2016

New #JohnColtrane documentary ...

Friday, August 5, 2016

Animated John Coltrane ....

Monday, September 28, 2015

John Coltrane Quartet My Favorite Things

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Wilbur Base e Shadow Wilson


With the Riverside sessions of July 1957, Monk and Trane delivered one of the seminal recordings in all of jazz. The sessions took place at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City.
Riverside recently released a two-disc set of The Complete Riverside Recordings of Monk and Trane, from April to July 1957. It is essential listening.
The lineup on "Ruby, My Dear" was Thelonious Monk (piano), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Wilbur Ware (bass) and Shadow Wilson (drums). One of the most memorable collaborations in all of jazz history.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

What's The First John Coltrane Album You Fell In Love With?

If you like jazz, we're assuming you have one. We want to know what it is. Hit us up in the comments.
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For me, it was Live At Birdland. I had all the common starter albums: Blue Train, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme. I liked them all a lot, in their different ways. Blue Train has those nifty compositions and those amazing blues rundowns.

Giant Steps has those trademark "I am way better than you at saxophone" solos on "Countdown" and "Giant Steps," but also the richly beautiful "Naima." My Favorite Things' title track is all unsettling and ruminative. And A Love Supreme is its own universe, a fortress, an idea greater than we are — it's deep. I was sold by the time I got to Live At Birdland. But this was the record which let me fully see John Coltrane as an actual human being creating human music, and not a detached, mythic freak of nature from canonical history.
 
It had to do somewhat with the live component; three of the songs were actually put to tape in concert at the club Birdland, including the tour de force cadenza on "I Want To Talk About You." These guys weren't a studio phenomenon; they did it night after night for years on end. It also has to do with the band: This is the work of Coltrane's "classic quartet" at full stride (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones), and it reminds you what it means to have a working unit which knows the language it has created for itself. (The studio version of "My Favorite Things" and this take on "Afro Blue" both feature soprano sax in a waltz feel, but much more how rousingly alive is this group? I mean, Elvin on that, yeesh.)

complete on  >>  http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/09/23/130086030/what-s-the-first-john-coltrane-album-you-fell-in-love-with?sc=nl&cc=jn-20100926

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Miles Davis & John Coltrane


Miles Davis & John Coltrane - Partnership historical analyzed in book

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Prestige Releases New Coltrane Box Set - Side Steps


SOURCE: On Target Media Group

Side Steps the third and final set in a series of Coltrane Box Sets, hits stores today via Prestige Records. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others.

The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with the exception of his work with Miles Davis (which is featured in The Miles Davis Quintet: Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions, released in 2006).

The beautiful Side Steps boxed set features:
*24-bit remastering from the original analog master tapes
*72-page book with rare photographs, discography, and sessionography
*Insightful essays by noted music historian Ashley Kahn
*Interview transcript with Prestige founder Bob Weinstock
*Fully reproduced original album cover artwork and notes
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=43734

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Prestige to Release New Coltrane 5-CD Boxed Set

Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of Coltrane’s numerous sessions from the mid to late ’50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader – released September 2006, in celebration of Coltrane’s 80th birthday – showcases his recordings as a bandleader. Interplay, released September 2007, contains Coltrane’s early collaborative recordings with a variety of stellar musicians from the same era.

And now, Side Steps is the third and final set in this series, scheduled for release on October 6, 2009. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with the exception of his work with Miles Davis (which is featured in The Miles Davis Quintet: Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions, released in 2006).

The beautiful Side Steps boxed set features:
24-bit remastering from the original analog master tapes
72-page book with rare photographs, discography, and sessionography
Insightful essays by noted music historian Ashley Kahn
Interview transcript with Prestige founder Bob Weinstock
Fully reproduced original album cover artwork and notes

SOURCE: On Target Media Group
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=43216

Sunday, September 20, 2009

A Love Supreme, with John Coltrane at Antibes rare videos

The suite spiritual A Love Supreme is one of the most revered works - if not the cult - the discography of John Coltrane. The album, composed by Trane's legendary quartet in late 1964 and launched in 1965, is perhaps the mythological record in jazz history as regards the coupling of the soul, caring and development of a musician in his own work: it is a personal devotion to Trane to his conception of God, the Creator, and show the unique characteristics of interactivity between members of a quartet that was at least one of the greatest combos in jazz history. The musicians of the quartet are Trane himself on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, and the label by which the work was released was the legendary Impulse Records, and the mastering engineer Ruddy Van Gelder, who operated in my own studio located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. In the recording studio, Coltrane also touch parts of the suite in a live concert at the Festival of Antibes, France, on July 27, 1965: was the only live concert where the quartet played during the piece.

To the delight of those who have not lived in France in 1965, had already heard that a video with parts of A Love Supreme was recorded in Antibes (in fact, it was possible to see parts of the legendary concert videos on Youtube incomplete, although in poor resolutions), but until then, was a rare videotape that just seemed to be lost or that "one or two" collectors had the most articulate in good resolution. It is true that the concert was never released on audio discs, in which case the shares are included in the suite: just browse through the records Live In Antibes 1965 Stamp French Radio Classic Concerts, Live In Antibes 1965 stamp LeJazz (related to Charly Records) or the free deluxe edition of the Impulse! (recently reissued in sync with the book A Love Supreme: The Creation of Disk, Ashley Kahn), but the supposed video of A Love Supreme, as its original was lost in the hands of a collector or in the archives of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in Paris.
However, a User has to provide the document cut in half in two videos with just over 12 minutes and optimum resolution: it is the parties' Acknowledgment and Resolution being played by the quartet of Trane, just over the legendary concert in Antibes that were lost, there is a cut in the ground suddenly of McCoy Tyner on the "Resolutions" and the third and fourth parts, Pursuance and Psalm, are not included, but it is still a great find - able to enjoy a good video of the quartet Trane playing two parts of his most mythology is a great opportunity. In addition, to complement their collections this stage post-bop and avant-garde of John Coltrane - I am the original disks for the Impulse, the book of Ashley Kahn, plus these videos can be downloaded on Youtube - the most fanatical coltraneanos may try to acquire DVD released by Disconforme at a price of 18.95 dollars: this is a compilation of videos such as the concert itself the Antibes Jazz Festival, 27/07/65 (with two other bands - apart from parts of A Love Supreme - Naima and Blue Valse), which also has the video of the concert in Baden Baden, Germany, 04/12/61 (with the tracks My Favorite Things, Everytime We Say Goodbye, Impressions) and video of the concert in San Francisco on 07/12 / 63 (with bands Afro-Blue, Alabama, Impressions). I believe people of good sense, which has a few bucks for their hobby when they buy - at least when the pocket to buy - these and other precious jazz records, rather than appeal to the convenience of downloads on the Internet. However, we know that not everyone can afford to create collections of CD's to buy at exorbitant prices, the blog Farofa Modern offers downloads of some historical records: if you want to download A Love Supreme Audio, simply click on the tag "John Cotran "below this post and download this and other records of the master SaxTenor.
www.farofamoderna.blogspot.com

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane - On a Misty Night


"On a Misty Night" from Tadd Damerons "Mating Call" album.
Composed by Tadd Dameron. Recorded November 30, 1956 in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Musicians:
*John Coltrane: tenor saxophone
*Tadd Dameron: piano
*John Simmons: bass
*Philly Joe Jones: drums
*Rudy Van Gelder: recording engineer