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| | John Coltrane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The aforementioned John Gilmore was a major influence on Coltrane's late-period music, as well. | | | Coltrane began playing music and practicing obsessively at about this time. | | | Coltrane's recording rate was astonishingly prolific, such that many albums did not appear until years after they were recorded. |
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| | Coltrane's usage of the "konkolo," his ability to fill up all of the musical space ("sheets of sound"), his development of the speech-to-sound continuum, and his idea that music and religion were inseparable all demonstrate the fact that he strove to disengage from traditional Western musical methods. | | | John Coltrane's suite "A Love Supreme" ended his search and began a new phase for musicians and music listeners. | | | Coltrane, in his solo, re-emphasizes the fight between himself and evil before returning to the melodic figure which introduces the song. |
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| | VH1.com : John Coltrane : Biography |
| | Coltrane's next Prestige session as a leader occurred later in July 1958 and resulted in tracks later released on the albums Standard Coltrane (1962), Stardust (1963), and Bahia (1965). | | | The album, consisting entirely of Coltrane compositions, in a sense marked his real debut as a leading jazz performer, even though the 33-year-old musician had released three previous solo albums and made numerous other recordings. | | | Early in 1957, Coltrane formally signed with Prestige as a solo artist, though he remained in the Davis band and also continued to record as a sideman for other labels. |
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| | Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - John Coltrane |
| | John Coltrane's diversity as an expressionist in music is preserved by his recorded legacy. | | | The Coltranes' home life included music: his father, a tailor, played violin and ukulele for enjoyment; his mother was a church pianist and sang in the choir. | | | Coltrane performed with Dizzy Gillespie on a number of occasions in 1950-51 as a member of Gillespie's Big Band and Sextet with recordings issued by Capitol and DeeGee Records: The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and Dizzy Gillespie Sextet. |
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| | Coltrane, John on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Traning the nineties, or the present relevance of John Coltrane's music of theophany and negation. | | | Coltrane made a number of influential recordings, among them the modal-jazz classics My Favorite Things (1961) and A Love Supreme (1964), and the later exemplars of free jazz, Ascension and Interstellar Space, his final album. | | | Coltrane Memorial Concert plays it safe; John Coltrane Memorial Concert at Northeastern University, Saturday. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Coltrane.asp
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| | Room 34 Multimedia John Coltrane Thesis |
| | This poignant observation suggests that Coltrane might justifiably be underrepresented, as it is all too easy for inadequately knowledgeable musicians to misinterpret Coltrane's music as "no-holds-barred," aimless honking and to use Coltrane's position as a respected musical innovator as justification for their own questionable musical experiments. | | | Coltrane first recorded this piece in 1960 in an innovative interpretation that already sounded radically different from the original, catching Coltrane in the formative stages of his new, modally-based, "avant garde" sound. | | | The significant presence of religion in Coltrane's childhood foreshadowed the turn his career would take in the 1960s, when, for both Coltrane himself and for listeners who accepted his new direction, the music became more than just music; it was a religious experience — a means of attaining mystical transcendence. |
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| | John Coltrane |
| | Coltrane advanced jazz improvisation harmonically through long excursions into the higher harmonics of chords on an instrument that that is sounded where a trombone, or a man's voice, is pitched (the tenor saxophone). | | | Coltrane's creativity with his sheets of sound was actually homophonically constructed music which had been carried to a higher level. | | | On the album Giant Steps (Coltrane's first album under his own name) his beautiful, solid tone is most evident in "Naima." This record shows his confidence at this time in his career and reveals deeper feeling and conviction than when he worked for Davis. |
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| | John Coltrane |
| | 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 stayed with Gillespie until around 1951, moving back to Philadelphia and again embarking on a course of formal study, this time in music theory at the Granoff School of Music. | | | Davis did it by sheer ambitious determination, gritting his teeth and presenting a confrontational yet often enigmatic image in the face of diversity. |
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| | John Coltrane |
| | Coltrane's playing was intensely melodic and often a solo would consist of cascading and childlike melodies, bounced off of the rolling rhythm section. | | | Greatly influenced by the younger generation of radical improvisers, Coltrane's recordings and concerts became increasingly abstract and he was joined onstage by firebreathers like Archie Shepp. | | | The key to this new music was the harmonic blanket style of piano playing used by Alice Coltrane. |
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| | Amazon.com: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman: Music: John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman |
| | This is one of the three all-ballad albums that John Coltrane recorded in late 1962 and early 1963. | | | Hartman was close to being a complete unknown in a field where he so obviously excelled and Coltrane, while recording two albums of ballads previous to this record, "Ballads" and "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" was still attempting to facillitate a style that reached the outer boundaries of the restrictive nature of popular song. | | | Coltrane's tenor, I feel, is actually the "second voice" on this fine disc. |
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| | The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison |
| | The tragedy of the Coltrane's family was not to end there his eldest son John Jr.was killed as a young man years later in an automobile accident. | | | In Coltrane's later years this can be heard in his attempt to alter the tonality many times within a piece of music, often dispensing with chords altogether, and more radically yet, with a steady beat. | | | The musical collaboration of Coltrane and Miles was priceless. |
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| | NPR's Jazz Profiles: John Coltrane: First Impressions |
| | The family moved with one of his grandfathers to High Point, N.C., when Coltrane was a teenager, playing clarinet and listening to big band music. | | | In 1945, Coltrane entered the Navy and a year later made his first recording with a Navy band called the Melody Masters. | | | The album didn't just mark a new musical plateau for Coltrane, it heralded a new era for jazz. |
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| | John Coltrane |
| | Although he'd released a few other albums under his name, this is in many senses Coltrane's first solo album: the first album of mostly Coltrane originals; the first album where he picked the personnel and the tunes beforehand, rather than just walking in off the street and blowing on whatever tunes happened to be around. | | | Four duets between Coltrane and Ali (one extra tune on the CD release), and the lack of bass and piano result in freer improvisations than ever; "Venus" is strangely beautiful, like nothing else you'll ever hear. | | | Coltrane is at his most lyrical, and the quartet is in its usual high form, and unlike Ballads, the material is high quality (Gallop and DeRose's "Autumn Serenade"; Rodgers and Hart's "You Are Too Beautiful"). |
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| | JOHN COLTRANE DISCOGRAPHY |
| | Capsule Info: The last album John Coltrane worked on before his death in July of 1967, and the first of many to be released by his heirs posthumously. | | | Only John Coltrane's and portions of his quartet members' parts are original dating from previously unreleased mid-1960s performances: the bass solos, the harp and organ parts, the percussion parts, and sweeping Stravinsky-like string arrangements were overdubbed in 1972. | | | Capsule Info: SELFLESSNESS is a patched-together album containing two brilliant live performances from the pre-Pharoah Coltrane group and one extended tune, the title track, recorded at the same time as KULU SE MAMA. |
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| | Jazz All About Jazz |
| | In preparing two interviews 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. | | | P.S. We asked Dave Liebman to write some comments on the importance of Coltrane and the significance of his music (see The Relevance Of John Coltrane Today). | | | We hope that the "Giants of Jazz" series will not only fill in some of the blanks about the musicians and their work, but will ultimately increase the depth of understanding of their music. |
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| | John Coltrane: Blue Train ---Ink Blot Magazine |
| | The only album John Coltrane recorded for Blue Note as a leader turned out to be one of his most rewarding statements, not to mention a highlight of Blue Note's recording history. | | | Even the simplest of blues structures provided enough room for Coltrane's harmonic curiosity, his searing emotional flurries, and his "sheets of sound" approach. | | | The buoyant original "Moment's Notice" offers especially exuberant solos from all three hornmen plus a terrific arco (bowed) solo from Chambers. |
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| | JOHN COLTRANE |
| | An abbreviated version of the last half of The Recordings of John Coltrane: A Discography, with all the updates. | | | Some of the contents of this site are based on The Recordings of John Coltrane: A Discography, (c) 1977, 1978, 1979 by David Wild and disc’ribe, Issues # 1, # 2, and # 3, (c) 1980, 1981 and 1983 by Angelyn and David Wild. | | | The Impulse label has since become a part of the Verve Music Group, and they are still sorting things out. |
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - John Coltrane |
| | Coltrane talks about trying to get the music out | | | In 1961 critic John Tynan said 'Trane's music was "a horrifying demonstration of what appears to be a growing anti - jazz trend." | | | Released over 25 albums in the last 6 years of his life |
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| | JAZZ SUPREME |
| | John Coltrane's seminal masterpiece "A Love Supreme" was recorded in late 1964. | | | Jazz, a music driven by rhythm and extended improvisation, was a medium ideally suited to the exploration of mystical ideas only partially communicable through the spoken word. | | | Invoking the ecstatic spirit of non-Western religious tradition, John Coltrane opened the eyes of the jazz world to a new spiritual potential. |
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| | John Coltrane discography |
| | The somewhat occasional album titles refer in general to CD editions. | | | = John Coltrane: COLTRANE (Impulse!) Sep 18, N.Y. Nancy Same personnel as What's New Dec 21, 1961. | | | My Favorite Things: John Coltrane: MY FAVORITE THINGS (Jazz Masterworks) Sep, Stockholm **Mr. |
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| | sfweekly.com News Requiem for a Church Supreme |
| | He might stick his sax in his mouth, and the band might kick into a Coltrane composition that goes on for 30 minutes, with the choir singing along, and every musician getting time to play solo. | | | The walls feature a series of 10-foot-high murals depicting saxophonist John Coltrane, and lyrics from his album A Love Supreme. | | | He may start a free-association sermon about John Coltrane, explaining that he was a "musical scientist," and dropping in quotes from Malcolm X and Cornel West. |
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| | John Coltrane Online |
| | You can buy these CD's and more at the John Coltrane Store; see below for Entrance. | | | Visit the Charlie Parker Tribute Site Visit the John Coltrane Tribute Site | | | This Page is a tribute to the greatest Tenor saxophonist of all time, John William Coltrane (Trane) |
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| | The Jazz Church of St. John Coltrane |
| | Coltrane's music swallows you up as you enter. | | | When John Coltrane in 1957 experienced a spiritual awakening (around the same time that he was briefly teamed up with Monk) he "humbly asked [God] to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music." One visit to St. | | | Catholicism), reveres late jazz saxophonist John Coltrane as a saint whose |
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| | Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/John Coltrane photos by Lee Tanner |
| | My pictures finally appeared on the subsequent LP The John Coltrane Quartet Plays and I was quite pleased. | | | The Coltrane quartet came to the Jazz Workshop in Boston in 1963 about a year before they recorded A Love Supreme. | | | I think Chuck Stewart was at that recording session and, if so, he was bypassed as well. |
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| | John Coltrane - Wikiquote |
| | John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967) was a famous jazz saxophonist. | | | I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing..." | | | "You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. |
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