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local Cut (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Portland bassist David Friesen rarely plays the same song twice. Back in the mid-1960s, a young jazz bassist named David Friesen found his band playing opposite the classic John Coltrane Quartet at a Seattle club called the Penthouse. Although he sat just a few feet away from some of the most powerful and distinctive players in [...] Related posts: U.S.E.’s Top 5 Favorite Dance Songs Electric...
Suburban Guerrilla (Free subscription) | 12/30/2009
The Billy Strayhorn classic with Johnny Hartman on vocal, John Coltrane, tenor sax. McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums.
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
For the third annual John Coltrane edition of Stormy Mondays, we turn our attention to the very end of saxophonist Eric Dolphy’s tenure with the band. From November of 1961 in Stuttgart, Germany, we have a pretty Every Time We Say Goodbye , and then a long, fluid My Favorite Things. [Photo by Herb Spitzer] To close out this year’s mix, also from Stuttgart but this time in 1963 with the...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
What majestic music this is from Trane and what majestic music Trane inspires others to create when they perform Trane’s compositions.
Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
The profile I wrote on Living Colour ran this morning on TheRoot.com. Here's a taste: “When they play together, I’ll put them onstage with anybody, in any genre of music,” says cultural critic and longtime friend Greg Tate who, along...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS OH ALLAH Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness Impulse : 1971 AC, organ and harp; Leroy Jenkins, violin; John Blair, violin; Julius Brand, violin; Joan Kalisch, violin; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums. String arrangements by AC; transcription by Ornette Coleman. “Is jazz dead? That all depends on what you know.” –Lester Bowie “A higher consciousness...
McDuff's Food & Wine Trail (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
This one goes out to an old friend.... John Coltrane, performing "Naima" with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Recorded while I was in the womb, it remains -- and always will be -- beautifully visceral music. ---------- Original content published at McDuff's Food & Wine Trail . All work copyright David McDuff and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NC-ND Works 3.0...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
I sadly noted the passing of Les Paul. He was a master. Another great, another master passed yesterday. Rashied Ali RIP. In this video, an unreleased recording. AKA "The Father The Son and the Holy Ghost." That's Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali.
{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
The death this week of guitar pioneer Les Paul is already receiving considerable attention; less will be given to the passing of drummer Rashied Ali. The latter means more for me as a musician since I’m listening to his work all the time. Ali famously (and to some, controversially) replaced drummer Elvin Jones as John [...]
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
The death of Les Paul may be receiving all the attention (to the point of receiving air time on BBC World Service Television News); and his memory certainly deserves that attention. However, William Grimes recently reported another significant death on the ArtsBeat blog of The New York Times : Rashied Ali , whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
Mostly Coltrane What makes this a success is how Kuhn and Lovano, with David Finck (bass) and Joey Baron (drums), take ownership of music fraught with memories of John Coltrane and his classic quartet, with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones.
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Sad news today about Hugh Hopper, the bassist and composer who made his name with the ground-breaking group Soft Machine; Jazzwise magazine has an article on his death at aged 64, announced in Britain yesterday. One of the first really...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane had recently signed with the newly formed Impulse! record label and settled on what wold be his greatest band featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones when these epochal recordings were committed to tape in 1961. Coltrane's friend and colleague Eric Dolphy sits in on several performances on alto saxophone and bass clarinet,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Garrison's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy GarrisonJimmy Garrison acoustic bass (1934 - 1976) Bassist Jimmy Garrison was the anchor in the classic John Coltrane Quartet, from 1961-\'66, which recorded all of its well-known albums on Impulse. Garrison\'s big, blunt sound... more...
A Slant Truth (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
It’s Friday! It’s payday! And as ZZ Top would say, “I got a pocket full of change.” Happy Old School Friday! This week’s theme is Jazz. I cannot express enough to you how much I love Jazz. Whenever I’m feeling a creative funk, out come the Jazz records. Feeling down, play some Jazz. Feeling up, [...]
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