John Coltrane
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American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A leader of “hard bop”, in the 1960s he led his own groups and changed the face of jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of spiritual expression. Sometimes called simply ‘Trane, his recordings include Giant Steps (1959), My Favorite Things (1960), Olé (1961) and A Love Supreme (1964). In his later recordings he collaborated on avante-garde music with his wife, Alice Coltrane (b. Alice McLeod, 1937-2007), who had a career in her own right.
The band sometimes called Coltrane’s “classic quartet” of the early 1960s included McCoy Tyner (piano), Elvin Jones (drums) and Jimmy Garrison (bass).
Despite a relatively brief career (he first came to notice as a sideman at age 29 in 1955, formally launched a solo career at 33 in 1960, and was dead at 40 in 1967), saxophonist John Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz. It seems amazing that his period of greatest activity was so short, not only because he recorded prolifically, but also because, taking advantage of his fame, the record companies that recorded him as a sideman in the 1950s frequently reissued those recordings under his name and there has been a wealth of posthumously released material as well.
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backstreets99 "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman", what a wonderful album
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recap-modotti just best.
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JBThazard vv Afroblue Sessions is a phenomenal live record, and extremely underrated.
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Nanchaku_Man McCoy Tyner's piano solo on "Dearly Beloved" from the Sun Ship album is one of my favorite moments in music ever! And that melody line on Coltrane's tenor just soars! John Coltrane can just really create the most dense but the most free and meditative atmosphere with his avant-garde work and it sends me to a very good place in my mind and my soul just pounds with intensely. It doesn't matter how many times I hear it. I love it when Coltrane does standards too, he has almost a completely different approach. the tone is still there which makes it Coltrane though.
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carpetxcrawler A S C E N S I O N <3
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Christian420 A Love Supreme (especially Resolution), and Afro Blue from Live at the Half Note have been ruling my world lately.
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iliveinthewoods Crazy good! You've got his normal jazz sounding records which are amazing then all of his free-jazz stuff which is personally my favorite.
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ColonelTheSlav Most avant-garde music is like that. It demands you attention otherwise it sounds like bollocks.
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