PHOTO OF JOHN COLTRANE, 1963SEAN SINGER
Photo:John Coltrane Home Stellar Regions by John Howard (October 2000) It has become a bit of a cliche to say that Coltrane was great. Indeed, he was Beethoven to Charlie Parker's Mozart, looming large over jazz while he lived and nearly eclipsing it at points after he had died. There...
Ostensibly a timekeeper, Jones was the wildest member of Coltrane’s ’61 quartet, and perhaps as a result he was the last player of this era that Coltrane would replace. At the end of the year, Workman left— his father was sick and Coltrane had a new trajectory in mind. Dolp...
These shows were among the last Coltrane performed as a sideman, with two of the concerts recorded at Paris's L'Olympia Theater on Monday 21 March; two shows from the next night at Stockholm's Konserthuset and one from Copenhagen's Tivolis Koncertsal three days late...
” Since Cobb is the last living musician from those sessions, it’s a noble gesture and fantastic marketing, but the execution could have been deadly. Play it too close to the original and you end up with paint-by-numbers Davis and John Coltrane. Improvise too much and the music not ...
Coltrane wrote and recorded a considerable amount of material over the final two years of his life in which his work was described as avant-garde, steeped in poignant spirituality for some while spurned by others. In 1966 he recorded the last two albums to be released while he was alive —...
“Kind of Blue”ballad jazz years produced some of the most recognizable and commercially successful jazz of all-time. Then he turned away from that era and kept moving forward looking to learn from and influence younger genius-level players likeColtrane,Wayne Shorter, andHerbie Hancock. In the...
This photo was taken about ten minutes before mass began. By the time it had started there were at least a couple hundred parishioners in attendance. Posted in People, Places and tagged african orthodox church, catholic, coltrane, john coltrane, sacred spaces, saint john coltrane, san francisco...
《爱乐之城》（《La La Land》）的服装前半部分使用了大量的饱和色，目的一方面是塑造女主角的性格以及...
“Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the years were John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk — the Gate offered nearly every type of performance imaginable. There were blues artists like B. B. King; soul singers like Aretha Franklin;...