John Coltrane

MILES DAVIS & JOHN COLTRANE / “Miles & Trane Mixtape”

breath of life (Free subscription) | yesterday

Miles playing on the edge of the precipice, Trane plummeting the deep of the far regions, and the band swinging like a weather wane in a hurricane.

November 9, 2009

breath of life (Free subscription) | yesterday

This is a deep week. We kick off with Miles Davis & John Coltrane, live performances from 1960, the last time they performed together in concert. Then we cross the pond to check out British media personality and songtress Mica Paris. Then check your passport because we go all over the world with 17 versions [...]

Cedar Walton - Voices Deep Within (HighNote, 2009)

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday

It is hard to think of a classier musician in jazz than Cedar Walton. The pianist has a wonderful knowledge of the piano and compositional technique, and the music he makes is both thoughtful and accessible. Joining him on this album are Vincent Herring on tenor saxophone, Buster Williams on bass and Willie Jones III on drums. These musicians have played together for years in one context or another...

Sirone obituary

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Powerful jazz double bassist with a gift for improvisation Back in 1971, three adventurous young US jazz musicians formed an uncompromising improv group called the Revolutionary Ensemble – a title that had resonances in the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the radical transformation of jazzmaking that had been ignited by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. The work of...

Beating Up Teachers With Cornel West

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday

Shaking hands with Cornel West, it's difficult to imagine that this is a man filled with rage. As the prominent “bluesman” put it in his Big Think interview , the key to a more just society lies in a form of widespread and unconditional love of others—a worldview that comes across forcibly within moments of meeting him. Yet, as a schoolboy, the Princeton Professor’s incipient...

Art D'Lugoff | N.Y. club owner, 85

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday

Art D'Lugoff, 85, whose famed New York nightclub, the Village Gate, featured performers from jazz great Duke Ellington to 1960s counterculture rocker Jimi Hendrix, died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital.

Jimmy Cobb still 'Kind of Blue' after 50 years

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Fifty years on, drummer Jimmy Cobb still can't believe what he, Miles Davis and five other jazz musicians achieved over two days in a converted church in New York. "Nobody could have conceived that 50 years later this would be going on," he said of the extraordinary success of "Kind of Blue", the best-selling jazz album ever which still sells in the thousands every week.

A jazz great who played what he felt

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

In Manhattan in the late 1950s, it was great to be young and a jazz fan. The drinking age in New York state was 18, so a college student with a draft card and the price of a couple of beers could sit at the bar of a club and catch a full evening of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, or other greats.

Rainy Saturday

Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table. Originally published at sararyan.com . You can comment here or there .

R.I.P. Art D'Lugoff, Village Gate Impresario, Booked Coltrane, Hendrix, Duke Ellington...

The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...

Miles Davis: Miles and Kind of Blue

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, {{Miles Davis = 6144}} assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles Davis Quintet, represents...

Dario Pegoretti: fatto a mano!

Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

The artisan... Where framebuilding equals art the cycling world can look and marvel at Dario Pegoretti. He was well schooled in the seventies learning framebuilding from none other than the great Luigino Milani. He actually continue building in the Milani shop in Verona until 1999. his art... During the nineties pro teams sought out Pegoretti for his functional frames and badged them under different...

NYC's Village Gate club owner, Art D'Lugoff, dies

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

NEW YORK -- Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85.

• NYC's Village Gate club owner, Art D'Lugoff, dies - Sify
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Department of Book Reports: 1959: The Year That Changed Everything

Jesus' General (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...

Music Review: John Coltrane - Side Steps

Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Side Steps is another great John Coltrane box-set from Prestige.

The Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane (1957) download mp3

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August with Josh Hartnett, Soundtrack, Lyrics and video

domino75 | 08/10/2009

August with Josh Hartnett , Soundtrack, Lyrics and video August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Lyrics and video Sweetness (Fischerspooner) listen Double Bass (Gorillaz) listen Mu-Tron (Ladytron) listen Five (Lamb) listen The Night (Morphine) listen Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)