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David Wild's page about John Coltrane, including a discography based on his
book "The Recordings of John Coltrane."
Biography Overview This section of The WildPlace contains a great deal of information about the great saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967)
A far too brief sketch of the details of Coltrane's life
An abbreviated version of the last half of The Recordings of John Coltrane: A Discography , with all the updates
News items from far and wide, of some relevance to the legacy of John Coltrane
A neat section which grew out of contributions to the John Coltrane List, which preserves individual recollections of Coltrane in performance
Although you won't find my reminiscences in the Coltrane FirstHand section (right time, wrong place), I’ve nonetheless been fortunate enough to have had a number of opportunities to work with his music
I compiled and published what became the standard John Coltrane discography in the late seventies (the starting point for the comprehensive 1995 work compiled by Yasuhiro Fujioka) and have written liner notes for a number of Coltrane releases over the past two decades
I also contributed to Carl Woideck's John Coltrane Companion in 1998, among other publications
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An on-line thesis titled 'John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution
of "My Favorite Things"' with bibliography, discography and pictures.
Home ADVERTISEMENTS John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution of 'My Favorite Things' A thesis by Scott Anderson This thesis was completed as an independent research project for the Honors in Music History and Literature program at Gustavus Adolphus College, St
Coltrane home page
Links to other Coltrane-related web sites
All About Jazz: John Coltrane
Comprehensive page honors the tenor saxophonist, and features album and book
reviews, art, interviews, photos, and album liner notes.
AAJ Giants of Jazz: John Coltrane Welcome to John Coltrane @ All About Jazz Welcome to John Coltrane @ All About Jazz! This is the first in a series called 'The Giants of Jazz' , each one dedicated to an outstanding artist who changed the face of jazz with his or her performances, arrangements, style, outstanding groups, and historical impact
John Coltrane @ AAJ is honored that David Liebman and Lewis Porter have come on board as Advisers
Dave, of course is the premier post-Coltrane jazz saxophonist, and Lewis is founder and director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and has written the definitive biography, They will help us maintain the high standards that are due a musician such as Trane, who gave his life to music as an art form and a spiritual quest
Write an article, or submit your ideas in a one or two paragraph format, go to Under and add your own comments, tell us about any Coltrane memorabilia and news clippings you may have
Let us know about Coltrane recordings that aren't on our discography yet
In preparing about Coltrane for All About Jazz, my own appreciation and grasp of his music went from a guy who made music that sang to a master who expressed his soul in phenomenal ways
John Coltrane - L'amour Suprême - A love Supreme
Biographie, discographie partielle et photographies du saxophoniste.
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A Tribute to John Coltrane
3 full songs in realaudio format, and links to other pages about John Coltrane.
John Coltrane
In-depth biographical sketch of Coltrane's life and work with links to further
information on the artist.
IMPRESSIONS OF COLTRANE: HIS LIFE & MUSIC by Marshall Bowden "The image of the artist as being apart, a personage with special, almost magical skills, descends to us from the Romantic period." (James Lincoln Collier, The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History , Dell Publishing, 1978)
There are few jazz musicians who have been as influential as John Coltrane
Part of the reason this statement can be made is that Coltrane's influence extended far outside the realm of jazz, a form of music that few were listening to by the time Coltrane led his own groups and became famous
John Coltrane became an inspiration and a symbol to those involved with social causes, with world peace, with the music and religion of the East, with rock and roll, with the connection between the musical and the spiritual, with the future of jazz and of the human race in general
Coltrane was able to do it in spite of, or maybe because of, his quietness, his internal focus
Like so many jazz musicians, Davis and Coltrane both succumbed to heroin addiction early in their careers
Both miss the mark-the fact is that Coltrane and Davis created some of the most influential and beautiful music in existence and that, though both were mere mortals, it is necessary to deal with the cult of personality surrounding each in order to understand the impact their work has had and continues to have
JAZZ SUPREME
A guide to the ecstatic experience in jazz by Ian Scott Horst, from the John
Coltrane recording of 1964 to biographies and discographies on Gato Barbieri, ...
John Coltrane's seminal masterpiece 'A Love Supreme' was recorded in late 1964
Invoking the ecstatic spirit of non-Western religious tradition, John Coltrane opened the eyes of the jazz world to a new spiritual potential
While John Coltrane himself died in 1967, he had planted a seed that soon bore fruit
The Development of John Coltrane's Concept of Spirituality and Its ...
Emmett G. Price III's essay on the spiritual content of John Coltrane's music (from
the summer 1995 issue of the Berkeley McNair Journal).
The Development of John Coltrane's Concept ofSpirituality and Its Expression in Music Emmett G
In 1964, John William Coltrane revealed to the world his concept ofspirituality in the form of what would soon be a world-renowned andmulti-award-winning suite, 'A Love Supreme.' Coltrane's concept fused musicand religion
It entailed the expression of music as a form of praise to God.Also, Coltrane borrowed musical and religious techniques from the Hindu andWest African traditions
'A Love Supreme' (music and text) was the result of aseven-year development in which Coltrane sought a closer relationship with God.Part of this closer relationship involved Coltrane's understanding of himselfas a child of God
Though Coltrane was raised in a household dominated byChristianity, and he professed to be a Christian for the majority of his life, he became dissatisfied with his personal relationship with God and felt that itcould and should be intensified
Coltrane's search for closeness with God began during the early spring of1957, when he underwent what he termed a 'spiritual awakening.'[1] During this time, he turned to God forhelp and rededicated himself to God
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The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison Thesis discusses the Black American Experience through the work of iconic figures
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John Coltrane and Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison.
The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison The combination of economic exploitation and racism has made one facet of the so-called 'Black American experience' poverty and degradation
And yet, that is only one side of a very complex story, one far too complex to be understood in terms of mere statistics, or to be discussed as an all-inclusive 'experience.' How can one take the lives of millions of people, with diverse conditions and interests, clump them all together, and talk about it in any meaningful way? How can one hope to explain such diverse things as jazz and the blues, the tremendous wealth of Black Literature, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Malcolm X, Jimi Hendrix, Frederick Douglas, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King Jr., John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B
Ralph Ellison, a writer, and John Coltrane, a musician, are the two artists I'm going to focus on
Finally, jazz and the blues play a direct role in much of Ellison's writing, and Coltrane's music was highly influenced by his spirituality, which he discovered through literature
However, one must be careful in assuming that these two men directly influenced each other, for it is hard to say if Coltrane ever read one page of any of Ellison's work, and a lot of Ellison's work was written before Trane became popular
The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison
An essay by Derek Wright.
The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison An by
REMEMBERING JOHN COLTRANE - "I Can't Do Any More Than What I'm Doing."
Profile by jazz historian and critic Mike Zwerin.
JazzNet: Special Series - Sons of Miles Search: • • • Dance • • • • • • You are in: > > • • Preview of: REMEMBERING JOHN COLTRANE - "I Can't Do Any More Than What I'm Doing." 'I never thought about whether or not people understand what I'm doing
Joshua Redman on John Coltrane
Joshua Redman discusses the classic John Coltrane recording A Love Supreme with
Jerry Jazz Musician.
Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Saxophonist Joshua Redman discusses John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' on Jerry Jazz Musician Joshua Redman Joshua Redman entered the jazz world with tons of expectation and perhaps an unreasonable amount of hope
One minute I would be digging on Sgt Pepper , and the next minute I would be digging on Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits , and the next minute I would be digging on Coltrane's A Love Supreme
They may not have any understanding of what's happening musically, the incredibly deep and complex musical issues that Coltrane is tackling, but I think the conviction and the intensity and the passion and the sincerity - the honesty - you feel these qualities when you hear this record, and that's what makes it so compelling, it's what makes it one of the greatest jazz albums of all time
JJM In the liner notes to Mood Swing , you wrote, 'In the eyes of the general public, jazz appears as an elite art form reserved for a select group of sophisticated (and rather eccentric) intelligentsia who rendezvous in secret, in underground haunts (or inaccessible ivory towers) to play obsolete records, debate absurd theories, smoke pipes, and read liner notes.' Given the direction Coltrane took his music, how much did he have to do with perpetuating this public perception of jazz being inaccessible? John Coltrane sketch by John Coltrane painting by JJM You were commissioned by a playwright to create a piece of music, Twilight ..
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John Coltrane book author Ashley Kahn
Ashley Kahn, author of "A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature
Album," discusses Coltrane in an exclusive intervew with Jerry Jazz Musician.
Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/John Coltrane historian Ashley Kahn interview , the book's web site , by Lee Tanner Ashley Kahn, author of The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album _ A successful recording generally entertains and communicates passion on an earthly, mortal level
'If you look at the book ( A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album ), ' author Ashley Kahn tells us in our interview, ' it starts and it ends with me talking about myself and how A Love Supreme forces me to talk about my own spirituality
If you are going to be an open and honest listener, and allow this music to enter you -- which was (John) Coltrane's intent -- you have to be willing to speak about yourself.' The impact of A Love Supreme on two generations of listeners led Kahn to report on its history and cultural significance
At the core of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album is Coltrane, the legendary saxophonist whose fame was secured as a result of his participation in Davis' group that recorded Kind of Blue
Coltrane's path to the recording of A Love Supreme was carved by his rebirth from years of drug abuse, his historic 1957 Five Spot appearances with pianist Thelonious Monk, his work with Davis, and the subsequent formation of his classic Quartet -- all of which resulted in intense creative growth that expanded jazz music's emotional and spiritual boundaries
What Coltrane Wanted - 87.12
The legendary saxophonist forsook lyricism for the quest for ecstasy. Article by
Edward Strickland from the Atlantic Monthly. [Requires subscription]
John Coltrane - Impulse! Records
Official site includes soundclips for every track in Trane's discography, and a
biography.
McCoy Tyner - Impulse! Records
Artist page from Verve Music Group and Impulse Records offers detailed biography
and discography.
Various Artists Impulse! Records A Love Supreme: Deluxe Edition John Coltrane Impulse! Records The Impulse Story Alice Coltrane Impulse! Records Translinear Light Alice Coltrane Impulse! Records The Impulse Story Albert Ayler Impulse! Records by Horacio Duek McCoy Tyner Born in Philadelphia on December 11, 1938, McCoy Tyner started playing piano at age 13 with Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk as his primary influences
Tyner remained with the Jazztet until John Coltrane was ready to leave Miles Davis’ group and launch his solo career
From 1960 to late 1965, he played a key role alongside drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Jimmy Garrison in the Coltrane Quartet, arguably one of the most influential groups in modern jazz
For the liner notes of that maiden voyage, Coltrane offered these words about the pianist: 'First there is his melodic inventiveness and along with that the clarity of his ideas
This new release was recorded live on what would have been John Coltrane's 71st birthday, this live McCoy set at the Vanguard was the first night of an Impulse! Records celebration of Coltrane's legacy
A pioneering member of John Coltrane’s legendary quartet, McCoy Tyner evokes the spirit of Trane on this new release, a live 1997 recording, with a program dedicated to Coltrane's compositions and signature songs
Rolling Stone : John Coltrane
Includes a biography, discography, photos, articles, links and message board.
Advertisement Welcome | John Coltrane Main page | Shortcut: www.rollingstone.com/johncoltrane Articles December 15, 2005 At Carnegie Hall May 19, 2004 Drummer played on classic Coltrane recordings November 1, 2003 John Coltrane November 1, 2003 John Coltrane Recordings and Reviews 1974 RS: Not Rated 1966 1965 Photos Biography For most of the â50s, John Coltrane was merely a first-rate jazz saxophonist
Between Coltraneâs first session for Miles Davisâ Kind of Blue (taped that day) and his death from liver cancer at the age of 40 on July 17, 1967, he recorded a massive, brilliant, perpetually evolving, and staggeringly influential body of work
If youâre just starting to listen to Coltrane, the sheer mass of stuff out there can be paralyzing (our discography omits..
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Tortoise
Interview with bass player Doug McCombs. Discusses their influences and instrumental
music.
Every single one of us is into Miles Davis and John Coltrane, two of greatest musicians of all times
Ognuno di noi ascolta Miles Davis e John Coltrane, due dei più grandi musicisti di tutti i tempi
The Jazz-Punk Connection
E-zine article by Billy Bob Hargus connecting jazz artists auch as Sun Ra, Albert
Ayler, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman with the roots of punk music.
The Real Godfathers of Punk by Billy Bob Hargus (July 1996) Albert Ayler John Coltrane Ornette Coleman When jaded music-nuts, chin-strokers and hipster whipper-snappers mull about things like 'where did punk rock come from, ' very rarely do you hear anything about jazz
Some poor souls are under the misconception that "jazz" only means Chuck Mangione or George Benson, forgetting such pioneers as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler, all of whom are the real grand-daddies of punk
He played a Stooges record then he played a jazz album (I think it might been have Coltrane)
Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd of certainly had Coltrane and Ayler in mind when they took off on their solos
JIMMY GARRISON
Memorial website tribute to Garrison from the Garrison family, has a history, an
extensive discography, and photos of Garrison playing bass, including one ...
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