Learn about John Coltrane’s biography, musical influences, and significance. See a list of John Coltrane songs and discover his distinctive...
A Google search revealed that Selflessness wasn’t a unit conceived by Coltrane but rather something of a vault dump by his label, Impulse!, released in 1969, two years after his death. Coltrane was an established jazz titan of the generation increasingly at odds with the iconoclastic tide r...
shortly before John Coltrane’s death, when free jazz and fusion started to creep into the mix – a line was drawn. In shorthand, acoustic Herbie Hancock playing with Miles Davis and recording for Blue Note is “good” jazz; synthesizer-rocking Hancock’s best...
as well as other media projects. It came down to a question of timing. As his last girlfriend told me, “Dying really fucked him up. His plans were well laid out in that sense, and this was badly timed.” Death is
TM:John Coltrane,A Love Supreme. I played that for him for a reason. For one, that’s not the record you introduce someone to [jazz] with. But I did that because he’s so advanced. I told him on a text — this record we’re doing right now [To Pimp A Butt...
Humdrummust have a death wish, or a band with a massive amount of confidence. I mean, fancy calling yourselves Humdrum and then making an album of out and out pure jangle. Yes, need I say more. We all know what it sounds like, nothing that really steps out of the indie pop jangle...
Coltrane, race, velocity, and transition” it would have been required to be different in kind from the others in at least one significant respect. But the much vaunted “scholarly” retort fails to identify any such characteristic, nor does it even attempt to do so-for the obvious reason ...
At the start of the New Year in 1982, I had the opportunity to perform for SQUARE PEGS, a CBS television show by Johnny Slash. I was in a flashback scene performing a parody of 1980s New Wave music. Fun stuff! Photo courtesy of Getty Images. ...
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