This documentary about John Coltrane provides a fine overview of his career for the uninitiated and plenty of lesser-known information for fans. As one of the latter, I was most interested in the ...
The DownBeat editor, Don DeMicheal, printed this exchange in the April 1962 issue, as part of a fascinating article headlined "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Regular readers ...
Southern Roots -- Life without Father -- A Musical Education I -- "Every Day Was an Adventure" -- A Musical Education II -- Philadelphia, 1946-48 -- A Musical Education III -- Apprenticeship with ...
Today marks what would have been jazz giant John Coltrane's 94th birthday. Two years before his untimely death from liver cancer in 1967, a young San Francisco couple heard him play — and their ...
No score yet, be the first to add. A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a ...
A little over 60 years ago, the editor-in-chief of DownBeat magazine asked John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy a deceptively simple question: What are you trying to do? He rephrased slightly: What are you ...
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