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Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a British television executive, given the nickname Botney (Yentob spelled backwards) by the magazine Private Eye. He was born into a Jewish family of Iraqi descent in London, and was educated at the independent The King's School, Ely and Leeds University. After initially joining the BBC as a trainee in the BBC World Service in 1968, he has spent his entire professional career with the Corporation. Yentob has two children, Isabella and Jacob.
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Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
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Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (née McLeod) (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John Coltrane.
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Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
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Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Marian McPartland, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett, as well as many other musicians world-wide. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Marcin Wasilewski, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Lyle Mays, Eliane Elias and arguably Brad Mehldau, early in his career. He is considered by some to be the most influential post World War II jazz pianist.
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Buddhism
Buddhism (Pali/Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pāli/Sanskrit "the awakened one"). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. He is recognized by adherents as an awakened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end suffering (or dukkha), achieve nirvana, and escape what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth.
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Buddhist
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), famously called Bird, or Yardbird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s,
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Curtis Fuller
Curtis DuBois Fuller (born in Detroit, December 15, 1934) is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.
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Dennis Sandole
Dennis Sandole (born Dennis Sandoli), 1913-2000, was a jazz guitarist, composer and music educator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a music educator and performer he left his fingerprint on music history. His students most notably included John Coltrane and Pat Martino, as well as lesser-known musicians such as Rufus Harley, Bob deVos and Frank Gerrard.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep" and "Where or When", which showed off his characteristic growl on the horn. He was a major influence on John Coltrane.
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Eddie Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B; alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after a lye-laced straightener destroyed his hair.
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Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan.
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. He also played, on a few occasions the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to using an array of extended techniques to reproduce human- and animal-like effects which almost literally made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony.
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Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
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Gary Peacock
Gary Peacock (born May 12, 1935 in Burley, Idaho) is an American jazz double-bassist.
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Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow," in fact, was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Wilbur Cobb (born January 20, 1929 in Washington D.C.) is an American jazz drummer.
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John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai (born April 28, 1936) is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent.
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Johnny Hartman
John Maurice Hartman (July 13 1923 – September 15 1983) was an American baritone jazz singer who specialized in ballads and earned critical acclaim, though he was never widely known. He recorded a well-known collaboration with the saxophonist John Coltrane in 1963 called John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, and was briefly a member of Dizzy Gillespie's group. Most of his career was spent recording solo albums.
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Johnny Hodges
John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1906 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for his solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years, except the period between 1932 – 1946 when Otto Hardwick generally played first chair. Hodges was also featured on soprano saxophone, but refused to play soprano after 1946, when he also got the task of playing the lead chair.
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King Kolax
King Kolax (b. November 6, 1912, Kansas City, Missouri -d. December 18, 1991, Chicago, Illinois) was a United States jazz trumpeter.
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Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 19, 1972, New York City) was an American hard bop trumpeter.
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Lester Young
Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums.
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Lewis Porter
Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist and musicologist.
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Marion Brown
Marion Brown (born September 8, 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. He is most well-known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai. He performed on Coltrane's landmark 1965 album Ascension.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning writer, and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, he currently lives in Brooklyn.
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Nat Hentoff
Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal.
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is a Grammy Award winning American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler famously said "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost."
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Philly Joe Jones
:For other persons named Joseph Jones, see Joseph Jones
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Plato
:For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation) and Platon (disambiguation).
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Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane (b. August 6, 1965 in Long Island, New York) is an American post-bop jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced artists such as pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder (born 2 November 1924, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American recording engineer specializing in jazz.
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
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Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn (born March 24, 1938, Brooklyn, New York City) is an American jazz pianist, composer and trio leader.
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Steve Lacy
This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy (businessman).
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name '''Le Sony'r Ra'''; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a 1979 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
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Sunny Murray
James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (born Idabel, Oklahoma in 1936) is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz musicians of his generation. Shorter's output within the field has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards.
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was an American jazz pianist, who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis in the 1950s.
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Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.
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Dix Hills
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Dix Hills, New York
Dix Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Suffolk County, New York, United States, on Long Island. Dix Hills was named the 19th most affluent U.S. neighborhood by Forbes in 2008. Dix Hills is part of the Town of Huntington and was named one of the most affluent U.S. neighborhood by Forbes. The population was 26,024 at the 2000 census and most students attend the Half Hollow Hills Central School District. The Half Hollow Hills elementary schools are Chestnut Hill, Forest Park, Otsego, Paumanok, Signal Hill, Sunquam, and Vanderbilt. The middle schools are Candlewood and West Hollow. The high schools are Half Hollow Hills High School East and Half Hollow Hills High School West.
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High Point, NC
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Long Island
Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and two of which (Nassau and Suffolk) are mainly suburban or rural. In popular usage, the term "Long Island" generally refers only to Nassau and Suffolk counties in order to differentiate them from New York City, though all four counties on the island are part of the New York metropolitan area.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States, and the county seat of Essex County. Newark has a population of 310,145, making it the largest municipality in New Jersey and the 65th largest city in the U.S.
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North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the Southern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. North Carolina is now ranked as one of the top 3 leading States for Green Technology, Bio-Chemical Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Computer Engineering through the long-range research and development programs of Research Triangle Park (RTP), UNC Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State .
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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- A Love Supreme
- ABC Records
- Africa/Brass (album)
- African history
- Alan Yentob
- Albert Ayler
- Alice Coltrane
- Allah
- altissimo
- alto horn
- alto saxophone
- Antibes
- Archie Shepp
- Aristotle
- astrology
- Atlantic Records
- Aum
- avant-garde jazz
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- BBC
- bebop
- belief
- Bhagavad Gita
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Bija
- Bill Evans
- Billy Higgins
- Blue Note Records
- Blue Train (album)
- Body and Soul (song)
- Brooklyn College
- Buddhism
- Buddhist
- Cannonball Adderley
- canonization
- canonized
- Cecil Taylor
- Charlie Parker
- clarinet
- Coleman Hawkins
- Coltrane changes
- Coltrane for Lovers
- Coltrane's Sound
- composition (music)
- Curtis Fuller
- Dennis Sandole
- Dix Hills
- Dix Hills, New York
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Down Beat
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- Earl Bostic
- Eddie Vinson
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- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Eric Dolphy
- Expression (album)
- First Meditations
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- free jazz
- Gale (Cengage)
- Gary Peacock
- Giant Steps
- glossolalia
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- Harold Arlen
- hepatitis
- High Point, NC
- Hindu
- Hinduism
- Huntington, New York
- Impulse! Records
- Indian philosophy
- Interstellar Space
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- Jazz
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Jimmy Cobb
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- John Coltrane Home
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- Krishna
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- Lazy Bird
- Lee Morgan
- Lester Young
- Lewis Porter
- Live at Birdland
- Living Space (album)
- Long Island
- LSD
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- Mantra
- Marion Brown
- McCoy Tyner
- Meditations (album)
- Miles Davis
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- modal jazz
- Molefi Kete Asante
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- multiphonics
- Music of India
- Musica universalis
- Musical language
- Naima
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- New Thing at Newport
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- North Carolina
- Olé Coltrane
- Ornette Coleman
- Pablo Records
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- perfect fourth
- Pete Sims
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- Philadelphia
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- Plato
- post bop
- Prestige Records
- Qur'an
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- Rashied Ali
- Ravi Coltrane
- Ravi Shankar
- Red Garland
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- reharmonization
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Saxophonist
- Selmer Mark VI
- sheets of sound
- Sidney Bechet
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- Soultrane
- spirituality
- Stellar Regions
- Steve Kuhn
- Steve Lacy
- Sun Ra
- Sun Ship
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- Tenor saxophone
- Thelonious Monk
- Turnaround (music)
- Universalism
- US Navy
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- Wayne Shorter
- world music
- Wynton Kelly
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Coltrane, John Filmography
- La musica più comica del mondo (2009)
- My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
- Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003)
- Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)
- Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)
- Masters of American Music (1995)
- The Atlantic Records Story (1994)
- De laatste sessie (1991)
- Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
- Different Drummer: Elvin Jones (1979)
- Man Outside (1965)
- Le chat dans le sac (1964)
- The Sound of Miles Davis (1959)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
Coltrane
(Released 2010)
The Savoy Recordings
(Released 2010)
John Coltrane Plays Ballads
(Released 2010)
- Naima
- You leave me breathless
- Theme for Ernie
- Do I love you because you're beautiful
- Violets for your furs
- While my lady sleeps
- Ruby, my dear
- I want to talk about you
- Why was I born?
- Something I dreamed last night
- I see your face before me
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
(Released 2010)
- Ruby, My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Off Minor (take 4)
- Nutty
- Epistrophy (alternate take)
- Functional (alternate take)
- Monk's Mood
Blue Train (Blue Train / Soultrane / Dakar)
(Released 2009)
Side Steps
(Released 2009)
- Weeja (1956)
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams (1956)
- On It (1956)
- Avalon (1956)
- Mating Call (1956)
- Soultrane (1956)
- Gnid (1956)
- Super Jet (1956)
- On a Misty Night (1956)
- Romas (1956)
Ascension
(Released 2009)
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
(Released 2009)
Complete Studio Recordings - Master Takes
(Released 2008)
- Monk's mood
- Abide with me
- Well you needn't
- Off minor
- Epistrophy
- Crepuscule with Nellie
- Nutty
- Ruby my dear
- Trinkle tinkle
- Blues for tomorrow
- Off minor (alternate take)
A Man Called Trane
(Released 2008)
- Alabama
- Blue Train
- Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
- Central Park West
- Naima
- Mr. Day
- Giant Steps
- My Favorite Things
- I Want to Talk About You
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
Fundamentals: John Coltrane, Volume 1
(Released 2008)
- Afro Blue (live)
- I Want to Talk About You (live)
- Made Man Miles (live)
- Mr. R.C.M. Jr. / My Favourite Things (live)
Blue Train
(Released 2008)
Settin' the Pace
(Released 2008)
- I See Your Face Before Me
- If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
- Little Melonae
- Rise 'n' Shine
- By the Numbers
A Love Supreme
(Released 2008)
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- A Love Supreme, Part 2: Resolution
- A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance
- A Love Supreme, Part 4: Psalm
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
(Released 2008)
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Take the Coltrane
- Big Nick
- Stevie
- My Little Brown Book
- Angelica
- The Feeling of Jazz
Interplay
(Released 2007)
Trane's Blues
(Released 2007)
- Oleo
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- Airegin
- 'Round About Midnight
- Trane's Blues
- Stablemates
- Tune Up
- Diane
- You're My Everything
- Four
The Very Best of the Atlantic Years
(Released 2007)
- Giant Steps
- Cousin Mary
- Naima
- Stairway to the Stars
- My Favourite Things, Part 1
- Mr. P.C.
- Little Old Lady
- Like Sonny
- Every Time We Say Goodbye
- Central Park West
- My Shining Hour
- Mr. Syms
- Equinox
- Body and Soul
- Aisha
Traneing In
(Released 2007)
Standard Coltrane
(Released 2007)
Gold
(Released 2006)
Reflections
(Released 2006)
The Cats
(Released 2006)
Fearless Leader
(Released 2006)
- Straight Street
- While My Lady Sleeps
- Chronic Blues
- Bakai
- Violets for Your Furs
- Time Was
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Trane's Slo Blues
- Slowtrane
- Like Someone in Love
- I Love You
Ballads and More
(Released 2006)
- I Want to Talk About You
- Theme for Ernie
- Good Bait
- I See Your Face Before Me
- If There Is Someone Lovelier You
- Black Pearls
Fearless Leader Sampler
(Released 2006)
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Trane's Slo Blues
- You Leave Me Breathless
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Good Bait
- Rise 'n Shine
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- I'll Get By
- Bahia
The Impulse Story
(Released 2006)
- Greensleeves
- Chasin' the Trane
- Tunji
- Impressions
- After the Rain
- Bessie's Blues
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost
- Ogunde
Stardust
(Released 2006)
Stardust: John Coltrane Plays Ballads
(Released 2006)
- Soultrane
- My Ideal
- Violets for Your Furs
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- Like Someone in Love
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Theme for Ernie
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Stardust
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
(Released 2006)
Black Pearls
(Released 2006)
Coltrane
(Released 2006)
Soultrane
(Released 2006)
Lush Life
(Released 2006)
Coltrane's Sound
(Released 2006)
- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Central Park West
- Liberia
- Body and Soul
- Equinox
- Satellite
- 26-2
- Body and Soul (alternate take)
My Favorite Things
(Released 2006)
- My Favorite Things
- Everytime We Say Goodbye
- Summertime
- But Not for Me
- My Favorite Things, Part 1 (single version)
- My Favorite Things, Part 2 (single version)
Mating Call
(Released 2006)
Tranesition: The Complete Paul Chambers Sessions
(Released 2005)
- Trane's Blues
- Dexterity
- Stablemates
- East Bound
- Trane's Strain
- High Step
- Nixon, Dixon and Yates Blues
- Omicron
- Nita
- We Six
- Just for the Love
In a Soulful Mood
(Released 2005)
- Midriff
- Ain't Life Grand
- Tippin'
- Pristine
- El Toro Valiente
- The Kiss of No Return
- Last Date
- The Outer World
- Not So Sleepy
- Love and the Weather
- If I'm Lucky
- Turtle Walk
Anthology 1959-1967
(Released 2005)
- Giant Steps
- My Favorite Things
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Say It
- They Say It's Wonderful
- Alabama
- Part I: Acknowledgement
- Chim Chim Cheree
- Naima
- Ogunde
The Bethlehem Years
(Released 2005)
- Midriff
- Ain't Life Grand
- Tippin'
- Pristine
- El Toro Valiente
- The Kiss of No Return
- Late Date
- The Outer World
- Not So Sleepy
- Love and the Weather
- If I'm Lucky
- Turtle Walk
The Best of John Coltrane
(Released 2004)
- Russian Lullabye
- The Way You Look Tonight
- On a Misty Night
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Dakar
- I'll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
- Theme for Ernie
- Bahia
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Trane's Solo Blues (a.k.a. Slowtrane)
Impressions
(Released 2004)
The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
(Released 2004)
- Straight, No Chaser
- Milestones (alternate take)
- Milestones
- Sid's Ahead
- Little Melonae
- Dr. Jackle
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Fran-Dance (alternate take)
- Fran (dance)
- Stella by Starlight
The Complete Mainstream 1958 Sessions
(Released 2004)
- Wells Fargo (-2, master take)
- West 42nd Street
- E.F.F.P.H.
- Rhodamagnetics (-2, master take)
- Snuffy
- Countdown (-2, master take)
- Wells Fargo (-1, alternate takes)
- Countdown (-1, alternate takes)
- Rhodamagnetics (-1, alternate takes)
Bags & Trane
(Released 2004)
- Stairway to the Stars
- The Late Late Blues
- Bags & Trane
- Three Little Words
- The Night We Called It a Day
- Be-Bop
- Blues Legacy
- Centerpiece
Complete Recordings With Dizzy Gillespie
(Released 2003)
- Say When
- Tally-Ho
- You Stole My Wife, You Horsethief
- I Can't Remember
- Coast to Coast
- Carambola
- Oo-La-La
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Birk's Works
- Tin Tin Deo
- We Love to Boogie
- Fast Movin' Mama
- Juice Head Man of Mine
- Shuckin' and Jivin'
- Richest Guy in the Graveyard
- Richest Guy in the Graveyard
My Favourite Things
(Released 2003)
- Traneing In
- I Want to Talk About You
- Mr. P.C.
- Made Man Miles
- Afro Blue
- Mr. R.C.M. Junior / My Favourite Things
- Stuff I'm Partial To
The Essential
(Released 2003)
- Trane's Blues
- Locomotion
- Sonny's Crib
- Just for the Love
- Blue Train
- One and Four (a.k.a. Mr. Day)
- Smoke Stack
- Shifting Down
John Coltrane Plays for Lovers
(Released 2003)
- I Want to Talk About You
- Violets for Your Eyes
- Invitation
- Slow Dance
- Lush Life
- Like Someone in Love
- Stardust
- While My Lady Sleeps
- You Leave Me Breathless
Sheets of Sound
(Released 2002)
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- A Love Supreme, Part 2: Resolution
- A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance
- A Love Supreme, Part 4: Psalm
Jazz Collection: Legends of Jazz Saxophone
(Released 2002)
Legacy
(Released 2002)
- Straight Street
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Lazy Bird
- Countdown
- Naima
- Giant Steps (alternate take)
- Fifth House
- After the Rain
- Crescent
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- Dear Lord
- Offering
- Iris
Timeless
(Released 2002)
Expression
(Released 2001)
Spiritual
(Released 2001)
The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (1955-1961)
(Released 2001)
- Two Bass Hit
- Dear Old Stockholm
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- 'Round Midnight
- Straight, No Chaser
- Milestones
- So What
- Blue in Green
- Some Day My Prince Will Come
In Europe
(Released 2001)
Spiritual
(Released 2001)
- Welcome
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- Dear Lord
- Song of Praise
- Wise One
- Tunji
- Ogunde
- Spiritual
75th Birthday Celebration
(Released 2001)
The Very Best of John Coltrane
(Released 2001)
- A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Bessie's Blues
- Naima
- Afro Blue
- Lush Life
- Crescent
- Impressions
- Alabama
- My Favorite Things
Standards
(Released 2001)
- All or Nothing at All
- Greensleeves
- Lush Life
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- I Want to Talk About You
- The Inch Worm
- Autumn Serenade
- Feelin' Good
- What's New
- Out of This World
Coltrane for Lovers
(Released 2001)
- My One and Only Love
- Too Young to Go Steady
- In a Sentimental Mood
- It's Easy to Remember
- Dedicated to You
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- After the Rain
- My Little Brown Book
- Soul Eyes
- They Say It's Wonderful
- Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
Coltrane Jazz
(Released 2000)
- Little Old Lady
- Village Blues
- My Shining Hour
- Fifth House
- Harmonique
- Like Sonny
- I'll Wait and Pray
- Some Other Blues
- Like Sonny (alternate version)
- I'll Wait and Pray (alternate take)
- Like Sonny (alternate take 5)
- Village Blues (alternate take)
Olé Coltrane
(Released 2000)
Interstellar Space
(Released 2000)
Kulu Sé Mama
(Released 2000)
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Sax Impressions
(Released 2000)
Midnite Jazz & Blues: My Favourite Things
(Released 2000)
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Legend
(Released 2000)
Les Incontournables
(Released 2000)
- Bahia
- Naima
- Lush Life
- While My Lady Sleeps
- My Favourite Things
- Slow Trane
- Giant Steps
- Russian Lullaby
- Central Park West
Legend
(Released 2000)
Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive John Coltrane
(Released 2000)
- 'Round Midnight
- Mr. P.C.
- Naima
- My Favorite Things
- Chasin' the Trane
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Afro Blue
- Alabama
- Acknowledgement
- Jupiter
Plays It Cool
(Released 2000)
The Very Best of John Coltrane
(Released 2000)
- Giant Steps
- Cousin Mary
- Naima
- Like Sonny
- My Shining Hour
- My Favorite Things
- Central Park West
- Summertime
- Mr. Syms
- Equinox
- Body and Soul
The Complete Savoy Sessions
(Released 1999)
- Wells Fargo (take 1)
- Wells Fargo (take 2, master)
- West 42nd Street
- E.F.F.P.H.
- Snuffy
- Rhodamagnetics (take 1)
- Rhodamagnetics (take 2, master)
- Count Down (take 1)
- Count Down (take 2, master)
- Anedac
The Best of John Coltrane
(Released 1999)
- Blue Train
- Lazy Bird
- Giant Steps
- Mr. P.C.
- Naima
- My Favorite Things
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Greensleeves
- Africa (first version)
Trane's Blues
(Released 1999)
- Trane's Blues
- Sweet Sue, Just You
- Soultrane
- Mating Call
- Monk's Mood
- Chronic Blues
- While My Lady Sleeps
- Straight Street
- Bakai
- Ruby, My Dear
- Nutty
Trane's Blues
(Released 1999)
- Trane's Blues
- Locomotion
- Sonny's Crib
- Just for the Love
- Blue Train
- One and Four (a.k.a. Mr. Day)
- Smoke Stack
- Shifting Down
Jazz Showcase
(Released 1998)
Infinity
(Released 1998)
Cosmic Music
(Released 1998)
The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
(Released 1998)
- Greensleeves
- It's Easy to Remember
- The Inchworm
- Big Nick
- Out of This World
- Soul Eyes
- Miles' Mode
- Tunji
- Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
- What's New?
- Up 'Gainst the Wall
- Too Young to Go Steady
- All or Nothing at All
- I Wish I Knew
More Priceless Jazz
(Released 1998)
- The Inch Worm
- All or Nothing at All
- Up 'Gainst the Wall
- It's Easy to Remember
- Lush Life
- Feelin' Good
- Soul Eyes
- What's New?
- Afro Blue
Living Space
(Released 1998)
Anthology 1956-1958
(Released 1997)
- Trane's Blues
- Soultrane
- Violets for Your Furs
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Nutty
- Blue Train
- Come Rain or Shine
- I Want to Talk About You
- Spring Is Here
- Just Friends
Priceless Jazz
(Released 1997)
- Bessie's Blues
- Dear Lord
- Big Nick
- Alabama
- A Love Supreme, Part I: Acknowledgment
- Naima
- Miles' Mode
- Crescent
- After the Rain
Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
(Released 1996)
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors
(Released 1996)
The Last Trane
(Released 1996)
Meditations
(Released 1996)
Folio Collection: The Jazz Masters, 100 anõs de swing
(Released 1996)
The Believer
(Released 1996)
Crescent
(Released 1996)
Blue Trane: John Coltrane Plays the Blues
(Released 1996)
Dakar
(Released 1996)
Sun Ship
(Released 1995)
Stellar Regions
(Released 1995)
- Seraphic Light
- Sun Star
- Stellar Regions
- Iris
- Offering
- Configuration
- Jimmy's Mode
- Tranesonic
- Stellar Regions (alternate take)
- Sun Star (alternate take)
- Tranesonic (alternate take)
The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
(Released 1995)
- Stairway to the Stars
- The Late Late Blues
- Bags & Trane
- Three Little Words
- The Night We Called It a Day
- Be-Bop
- Blues Legacy
- Centerpiece
- Giant Steps (alternate version)
- Naima (alternate version)
- Like Sonny (alternate version)
On Impulse
(Released 1994)
- Greensleeves
- Naima
- Soul Eyes
- Say It (Over And Over Again)
- Stevie
- Lush Life
- Bessie's Blues
- A Love Supreme (Part One: Acknowledgement)
- Dear Lord
- Transition
- Welcome
In a Soulful Mood
(Released 1994)
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Tunji
- Soul Eyes
- The Inchworm
- Nancy
- Blues Minor
- After the Rain
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- I Want to Talk About You
- Alabama
- Naima
- Afro Blue
Transition
(Released 1993)
- Transition
- Welcome
- Suite: Prayer and Meditation: Day / Peace and After / Prayer and Meditation: Evening / Affirmation / Prayer and Meditation: 4 A.M.
- Vigil
Dear Old Stockholm
(Released 1993)
The Last Giant: The John Coltrane Anthology
(Released 1993)
- Hot House (jam session)
- Good Groove
- We Love to Boogie
- Bittersweet
- Thru for the Night
- Trane's Blues
- While My Lady Sleeps
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Blue Train
- Russian Lullaby
- My Favorite Things
Roy & Other Rarities
(Released 1992)
The Dreamweavers
(Released 1992)
- Wabash
- The Tune of the Hickory Stick
- You're a Weaver of My Dreams
- The Stars Fell on Alabama
- The Sleeper
The Major Works of John Coltrane
(Released 1992)
The Art of John Coltrane
(Released 1992)
- Moment's Notice
- Blue Train
- Speak Low
- Just for the Love
- Nita
- Trane's Blues (a.k.a. John Paul Jones)
- Dexterity
- Shifting Down
First Meditations (for quartet)
(Released 1992)
A John Coltrane Retrospective: The Impulse! Years
(Released 1992)
The Best of John Coltrane
(Released 1992)
The Prestige Recordings
(Released 1991)
Coltrane Time
(Released 1991)
Bahia
(Released 1991)
The Gentle Side of John Coltrane
(Released 1991)
- Soul Eyes
- What's New?
- Welcome
- Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
- My Little Brown Book
- Wise One
- Lush Life
- Alabama
- My One and Only Love
- After the Rain
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Dear Lord
- I Want to Talk About You
Like Sonny
(Released 1990)
- One and Four
- Exotica (alternate take)
- Exotica
- Like Sonny
- Essii's Dance
- Doxy
- Oleo
- I Talk to the Trees
- Yesterdays
- Angel Eyes
The Avant-Garde
(Released 1990)
The Stardust Session
(Released 1989)
- Spring Is Here
- Invitation
- I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?
- Love Thy Neighbor
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- My Ideal
- Stardust
- I'll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
Miles & Coltrane
(Released 1988)
- Ah-Leu-Cha
- Straight, No Chaser
- Fran-Dance (Put Your Little Foot Right Out)
- Two Bass Hit
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Little Melonae
- Budo
The Mastery of John Coltrane, Volume 3: Jupiter Variation
(Released 1987)
Exotica
(Released 1987)
From the Original Master Tapes
(Released 1986)
John Coltrane and the Jazz Giants
(Released 1986)
- Monk's Mood
- Airegin
- Mating Call
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- I Love You
- Soft Lights and Sweet Music
- Billie's Bounce
- Lover
- Russian Lullaby
- Invitation
Live In Stockholm 1960
(Released 1985)
- All Blues / The Theme
- Coltrane Interview Part One
- Coltrane Interview Part Two
- Fran - Dance
- Walkin'
- So What
- On Green Dolphin Street
- So What
Rain or Shine
(Released 1980)
- Slowtrane
- Trane's Slo Blues
- Lover
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
- By the Numbers
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Little Melonae
- Rise 'n' Shine
Wheelin'
(Released 1977)
Turning Point
(Released 1976)
- Pristine
- If I'm Lucky (I'll Be the One)
- Tippin'
- Midriff
- Turtle Walk
- Love And The Weather
- The Outer World
Rain or Shine
(Released 1976)
- Slowtrane
- Trane's Slow Blues
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- If There Is One Lovelier Than You
- By the Numbers
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Little Melonae
... More Lasting Than Bronze
(Released 1973)
Monk Trane
(Released 1973)
- Ruby My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Nutty
- Well You Needn't
- Off Minor (alternate take 4)
- Off Minor (master take)
- Epistrophy (fragment)
- Epistrophy
- Crepuscule With Nellie
- Abide With Me
- Monk's Mood
- Blues for Tomorrow
- Blue Train
- Moment's Notice
- Locomotion
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Lazy Bird
- Trane's Blues
- Just for the Love
- Sonny's Crib
- Smoke Stack
- You're A Weaver Of Dreams
- You Are Too Beautiful
- I Wish I Knew
- Naima
- Autumn Serenade
- Say It (Over And Over Again)
- Wise One
- Feelin' Good
- What's New
- Lush Life
- Blues to Elvin
- Blues to Bechet
- Blues to You
- Mr. Day
- Mr. Syms
- Mr. Knight
- [untitled original: Exotica]
- Violets for Your Furs
- I Want to Talk About You
- Like Someone in Love
- Slow Dance
- Theme for Ernie
- While My Lady Sleeps
- I Love You
- You Leave Me Breathless
- I See Your Face Before Me
- They Say It's Wonderful
- Dedicated to You
- My One and Only Love
- Lush Life
- You Are Too Beautiful
- Autumn Serenade
- Vilia
- A Love Supreme, Acknowledgement
- A Love Supreme, Resolution
- A Love Supreme, Pursuance
- A Love Supreme, Psalm
- Spiritual
- Giant Steps
- Cousin Mary
- Countdown
- Spiral
- Syeeda's Song Flute
- Naima
- Mr. P.C.
- Giant Steps (alternate take)
- Naima (alternate take)
- Cousin Mary (alternate take)
- Countdown (alternate take)
- Syeeda's Song Flute (alternate take)
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My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
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- Published: 09 May 2008
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- Author: DrThiMarques
My Favorite Things is a 1961 jazz album by John Coltrane. It is considered by many jazz critics and listeners to be a highly significant and historic recording. It was the first session recorded by Coltrane on the Atlantic label, the first to introduce his new quartet featuring McCoy Tyner (Piano), Elvin Jones (Drums) and Steve Davis (Bass) - neither Jimmy Garrison nor Reggie Workman featured as yet. It is classed as another album in which Coltrane made a break free of bop, introducing complex harmonic reworkings of such songs as "My Favorite Things", and "But Not For Me". Additionally, at a time when the soprano saxophone was considered obsolete, it demonstrated Coltrane's further investigation of the instrument's capabilities in a jazz idiom. The standard "Summertime" is notable for its upbeat, searching feel, a demonstration of Coltrane's 'sheets of sound', a stark antithesis to Miles Davis's melancholy, lyrical version on Porgy and Bess. "But Not For Me" is reharmonised using the famous Coltrane changes, and features an extended coda over a repeated ii-VI-vi progression. The title track is a modal rendition of the Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein's seminal song My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. The melody is heard numerous times throughout the almost 14-minute version, and instead of soloing over the written chord changes, both Tyner and Coltrane taking extended solos over vamps of the two tonic chords, E minor and E major. Tyner's solo is famous for being <b>...</b>
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Blue Train
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- Author: sowhatcafe
Album:BLUE TRAIN Tune:Blue Train [1957] John Coltrane(ts) Lee Morgan(tp) Curtis Fuller(tb) Kenny Drew(p) Paul Chambers(b) Philly Joe Jones(ds)
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Animated Sheet Music: "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane
This is what John Coltrane's landmark tune and solo look like when they come to life on paper. If you try to play along, you may notice that the transcription for the head is transposed for C and the solo's in Bb. Weird, I know, but the transcription book that I based this animation on was in concert. You can buy the sheet music here: www.amazon.com
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John Coltrane :: Alabama :: Jazz Casual
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- Published: 23 Apr 2006
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- Author: interplanetarymusic
The John Coltrane Quartet (John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) en 1963, el el programa de televisión Jazz Casual, interpretando Alabama. Puede verse el comienzo del programa en: www.youtube.com
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John Coltrane Quartet- Afro Blue
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones "Afro Blue" (1963)
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John Coltrane - Naima - 1965
July 27, 1965 in Antibes John Coltrane - Tenor Sax McCoy Tyner - Piano Jimmy Garrison - Bass Elvin Jones - Drums
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John Coltrane: On Green Dolphin Street
John Coltrane (feeling 'kind of blue') takes a stroll down 'Green Dolphin Street' in this rare footage.
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John Coltrane - Impressions - 1961
1961 in Baden-Baden Germany John Coltrane - soprano sax, tenor sax Eric Dolphy - flute, alto sax McCoy Tyner - piano Reggie Workman - bass Elvin Jones - drums
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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1/2)
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My Favorite Things Album: My Favorite Things (1961) Written by: Richard Rodgers Personnel: John Coltrane — soprano saxophone McCoy Tyner — piano Steve Davis — bass Elvin Jones — drums
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - 1965 (fragment)
July 26, 1965 in Antibes. John Coltrane - Tenor Sax McCoy Tyner - Piano Jimmy Garrison - Bass Elvin Jones - Drums
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John Coltrane - Every Time We Say Goodbye - 1961
1961 in Baden-Baden Germany "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" is a jazz standard written by Cole Porter. John Coltrane - soprano sax, tenor sax Eric Dolphy - flute, alto sax (sits out) McCoy Tyner - piano Reggie Workman - bass Elvin Jones - drums
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JOHN COLTRANE A love supreme Part I Acknowledgement
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- Published: 02 Jul 2009
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John Coltrane - Equinox (Original)
John Coltrane - Equinox
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John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy - Impressions
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John Coltrane & Stan Getz: Hackensack (Rifftide)
Tenor giants John Coltrane and Stan Getz lead an incredible group through a tune claimed by both Thelonius Monk (Hackensack) and Coleman Hawkins (Rifftide). Oscar Peterson sits in on piano with the incomparable rhythm section of Paul Chambers (bass) and Jimmy Cobb (drums).
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John Coltrane - Blue train
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John Coltrane playing the amazing Blue train
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John Coltrane "Greensleeves" (1961)
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From the album "Live! at the village vanguard" (1961). John Coltrane — tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone Eric Dolphy — bass clarinet McCoy Tyner — piano Reggie Workman — double bass Elvin Jones — drums
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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
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A seer , a sage, a mystic. All these and more was John Coltrane.
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John Coltrane A Love Supreme Vinyl Record
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Acknowledgment - 1st Pressing - Impulse Records
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John Coltrane - Summertime (1/2)
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Summertime Album: My Favorite Things (1961) Written by: George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Dorothy Heyward DuBose Heyward Personnel: John Coltrane — tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner — piano Steve Davis — bass Elvin Jones — drums
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John Coltrane Quartet - Part4 - Impressions(2) cont.
With: Jimmy Garrison - bass, McCoy Tyner - piano & Elvin Jones - drums.
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John Coltrane - I Want To Talk About You - 1962
1962 in Stockholm, filmed by an audience member. John Coltrane - Tenor Sax McCoy Tyner - Piano Jimmy Garrison - Bass Elvin Jones - Drums
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16 Nov 2011
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September 23, 2011, would have been John Coltrane's 85th birthday. As usual with such important anniversaries, the majors have unleashed a flurry of Coltrane releases, mainly vinyl reissues and the inevitable best-of repackagings. Amidst the nostalgia, a bit of significant new material has also...
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The Examiner
The inaugural John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival is set to welcome international visitors Sept. 3 to High Point, Coltrane's birthplace. Grammy Award winner Patti Austin will headline the event introducing a solid lineup of jazz favorites and budding musicians ready to entertain....
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Home of jazz icon John Coltrane endangered
16 Jun 2011
Newsday
Videos 'Gatsby' demolition Bernie Madoff's Open House in Montauk Veteran's new home Galleries...
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Huffington Post
DIX HILLS, N.Y. -- The orange, red and green shag carpeting in the room where John Coltrane wrote his masterpiece, "A Love Supreme," is, inexplicably, about the only piece of the jazz legend's former home that remains in good condition. The rest of the 3,000-square-foot, ranch-style house has slowly...
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Jazz Alive Presents - A Tribute to John Coltrane
01 Apr 2011
The Examiner
As everyone knows, a musician's skill is enhanced with lots of practice, rehearsals, and performances. For the extraordinary musician, that skill is propelled by the intangible and powerful element of spirit. In the world of music, spirit is the foundation for true artistic creativity. The result is...
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| name | John Coltrane |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth name | John William Coltrane |
| alias | "Trane" |
| born | September 23, 1926Hamlet, North Carolina, US |
| died | July 17, 1967Huntington, New York, US |
| genre | Jazz, avant-garde jazz, bebop, hard bop, post bop, modal jazz, free jazz |
| occupation | Saxophonist, composer, bandleader |
| instrument | Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone |
| years active | 1946–1967 |
| label | Prestige, Blue Note, Atlantic, Impulse!, Pablo |
| associated acts | Miles Davis Quintet, Thelonious Monk |
| website | johncoltrane.com }} |
| Name | Saint John William Coltrane |
|---|---|
| Birth date | September 23, 1926 |
| birth place | Hamlet, North Carolina, US |
| Death date | July 17, 1967 |
| death place | Huntington, New York, US |
| Venerated in | African Orthodox Church |
| Patronage | All Artists }} |
John William Coltrane (also known as "Trane"; September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He was prolific, organizing at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane, and their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist. Coltrane influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history. He received many posthumous awards and recognition, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church as Saint John William Coltrane. In 2007, Coltrane was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."
Biography
Early life and career (1926–1954)
John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926, and grew up in High Point, NC, attending William Penn High School (now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts). Beginning in December 1938 Coltrane's aunt, grandparents, and father all died within a few months of each other, leaving John to be raised by his mother and a close cousin. In June 1943 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Navy in 1945, and played in the Navy jazz band once he was stationed in Hawaii. Coltrane returned to civilian life in 1946 and began jazz theory studies with Philadelphia guitarist and composer Dennis Sandole. Coltrane continued under Sandole's tutelage until the early 1950s. Originally an altoist, during this time Coltrane also began playing tenor saxophone with the Eddie Vinson Band. Coltrane later referred to this point in his life as a time when "a wider area of listening opened up for me. There were many things that people like Hawk, and Ben, and Tab Smith were doing in the '40s that I didn't understand, but that I felt emotionally."An important moment in the progression of Coltrane's musical development occurred on June 5, 1945, when he saw Charlie Parker perform for the first time. In a ''DownBeat'' article in 1960 he recalled: "the first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes." Parker became an early idol, and they played together on occasion in the late 1940s.
Contemporary correspondence shows that Coltrane was already known as "Trane" by this point, and that the music from some 1946 recording sessions had been played for Miles Davis—possibly impressing the latter.
There are recordings of Coltrane from as early as 1945. He was a member of groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic and Johnny Hodges in the early- to mid-1950s.
Miles and Monk period (1955–1957)
Coltrane was freelancing in Philadelphia in the summer of 1955 while studying with guitarist Dennis Sandole when he received a call from trumpeter Miles Davis. Davis, whose success during the late forties had been followed by several years of decline in activity and reputation, due in part to his struggles with heroin, was again active, and was about to form a quintet. Coltrane was with this edition of the Davis band (known as the "First Great Quintet" to distinguish it from Davis's later group with Wayne Shorter) from October 1955 through April 1957 (with a few absences), a period during which Davis released several influential recordings which revealed the first signs of Coltrane's growing ability. This First Quintet, represented by two marathon recording sessions for Prestige in 1956 that resulted in the albums ''Cookin''', ''Relaxin''', ''Workin''', and ''Steamin''', disbanded in mid April due partly to Coltrane's heroin addiction.During the later part of 1957 Coltrane worked with Thelonious Monk at New York’s Five Spot, a legendary jazz club, and played in Monk's quartet (July–December 1957), but owing to contractual conflicts took part in only one official studio recording session with this group. A private recording made by Juanita Naima Coltrane of a 1958 reunion of the group was issued by Blue Note Records in 1993 as ''Live at the Five Spot-Discovery!''. More significantly, a high-quality tape of a concert given by this quartet in November 1957 surfaced, and in 2005 Blue Note made it available on CD. Recorded by Voice of America, the performances confirm the group's reputation, and the resulting album, ''Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall'', is widely acclaimed.
''Blue Train'', Coltrane's sole date as leader for Blue Note, featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, bassist Paul Chambers, and trombonist Curtis Fuller, is often considered his best album from this period. Four of its five tracks are original Coltrane compositions, and the title track, "Moment's Notice," and "Lazy Bird", have become standards. Both tunes employed the first examples of his chord substitution cycles known as Coltrane changes.
Davis and Coltrane again
Coltrane rejoined Davis in January 1958. In October of that year, jazz critic Ira Gitler coined the term "sheets of sound" to describe the style Coltrane developed during his stint with Monk and was perfecting in Davis' group, now a sextet. His playing was compressed, with rapid runs cascading in hundreds of notes per minute. He stayed with Davis until April 1960, working with alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans, and Wynton Kelly; bassist Paul Chambers; and drummers Philly Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb. During this time he participated in the Davis sessions ''Milestones'' and ''Kind of Blue'', and the live recordings ''Miles & Monk at Newport'' and ''Jazz at the Plaza''. {| style="font-size:100%" align="right" border="0" color="black" width=130px | |} At the end of this period Coltrane recorded his first album for Atlantic Records, ''Giant Steps'', made up exclusively of his own compositions. The album's title track is generally considered to have the most complex and difficult chord progression of any widely-played jazz composition. ''Giant Steps'' utilizes Coltrane changes. His development of these altered chord progression cycles led to further experimentation with improvised melody and harmony that he would continue throughout his career.
First albums as leader
Coltrane formed his first group, a quartet, in 1960 for an appearance at the Jazz Gallery in New York City. After moving through different personnel including Steve Kuhn, Pete La Roca, and Billy Higgins, the lineup stabilized in the fall with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones. Tyner, from Philadelphia, had been a friend of Coltrane's for some years and the two men long had an understanding that the pianist would join Coltrane when Tyner felt ready for the exposure of regularly working with him. Also recorded in the same sessions were the later released albums ''Coltrane's Sound'' and ''Coltrane Plays the Blues''.Still with Atlantic Records, for whom he had recorded ''Giant Steps'', his first record with his new group was also his debut playing the soprano saxophone, the hugely successful ''My Favorite Things''. Around the end of his tenure with Davis, Coltrane had begun playing soprano saxophone, an unconventional move considering the instrument's near obsolescence in jazz at the time. His interest in the straight saxophone most likely arose from his admiration for Sidney Bechet and the work of his contemporary, Steve Lacy, even though Miles Davis claimed to have given Coltrane his first soprano saxophone. The new soprano sound was coupled with further exploration. For example, on the Gershwin tune "But Not for Me", Coltrane employs the kinds of restless harmonic movement (Coltrane changes) used on ''Giant Steps'' (movement in major thirds rather than conventional perfect fourths) over the A sections instead of a conventional turnaround progression. Several other tracks recorded in the session utilized this harmonic device, including "26–2," "Satellite," "Body and Soul", and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes".
First years with Impulse Records (1960–1962)
In May 1961, Coltrane's contract with Atlantic was bought out by the newly formed Impulse! Records label. An advantage to Coltrane recording with Impulse! was that it would enable him to work again with engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who had taped both his and Davis's Prestige sessions, as well as ''Blue Train''. It was at Van Gelder's new studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey that Coltrane would record most of his records for the label.By early 1961, bassist Davis had been replaced by Reggie Workman while Eric Dolphy joined the group as a second horn around the same time. The quintet had a celebrated (and extensively recorded) residency in November 1961 at the Village Vanguard, which demonstrated Coltrane's new direction. It featured the most experimental music he'd played up to this point, influenced by Indian ragas, the recent developments in modal jazz, and the burgeoning free jazz movement. John Gilmore, a longtime saxophonist with musician Sun Ra, was particularly influential; after hearing a Gilmore performance, Coltrane is reported to have said "He's got it! Gilmore's got the concept!" The most celebrated of the Vanguard tunes, the 15-minute blues, "Chasin' the 'Trane", was strongly inspired by Gilmore's music.
During this period, critics were fiercely divided in their estimation of Coltrane, who had radically altered his style. Audiences, too, were perplexed; in France he was famously booed during his final tour with Davis. In 1961, ''Down Beat'' magazine indicted Coltrane, along with Eric Dolphy, as players of "Anti-Jazz" in an article that bewildered and upset the musicians. Coltrane admitted some of his early solos were based mostly on technical ideas. Furthermore, Dolphy's angular, voice-like playing earned him a reputation as a figurehead of the "New Thing" (also known as "Free Jazz" and "Avant-Garde") movement led by Ornette Coleman, which was also denigrated by some jazz musicians (including Miles Davis) and critics. But as Coltrane's style further developed, he was determined to make each performance "a whole expression of one's being".
Classic Quartet period (1962–1965)
In 1962, Dolphy departed and Jimmy Garrison replaced Workman as bassist. From then on, the "Classic Quartet", as it came to be known, with Tyner, Garrison, and Jones, produced searching, spiritually driven work. Coltrane was moving toward a more harmonically static style that allowed him to expand his improvisations rhythmically, melodically, and motivically. Harmonically complex music was still present, but on stage Coltrane heavily favored continually reworking his "standards": "Impressions", "My Favorite Things", and "I Want to Talk about You."The criticism of the quintet with Dolphy may have had an impact on Coltrane. In contrast to the radicalism of Trane's 1961 recordings at the Village Vanguard, his studio albums in 1962 and 1963 (with the exception of ''Coltrane'', which featured a blistering version of Harold Arlen's "Out of This World") were much more conservative and accessible. He recorded an album of ballads and participated in collaborations with Duke Ellington on the album ''Duke Ellington and John Coltrane'' and with deep-voiced ballad singer Johnny Hartman on an eponymous co-credited album. The Impulse compilation ''Coltrane for Lovers'' is largely drawn from these three albums. The album ''Ballads'' is emblematic of Coltrane's versatility, as the quartet shed new light on old-fashioned standards such as "It's Easy to Remember". Despite a more polished approach in the studio, in concert the quartet continued to balance "standard" and its own more exploratory and challenging music, as can be seen on the ''Impressions'' album (two extended jams including the title track along with "Dear Old Stockholm", "After the Rain" and a blues), ''Coltrane at Newport'' (where he plays "My Favorite Things") and ''Live at Birdland'' both from 1963. Coltrane later said he enjoyed having a "balanced catalogue."
The Classic Quartet produced their most famous record, ''A Love Supreme'', in December 1964. It is reported that Coltrane, who struggled with repeated drug addiction, derived inspiration for "A Love Supreme" through a near overdose in 1957 which galvanized him to spirituality. A culmination of much of Coltrane's work up to this point, this four-part suite is an ode to his faith in and love for God. These spiritual concerns would characterize much of Coltrane's composing and playing from this point onwards, as can be seen from album titles such as ''Ascension'', ''Om'' and ''Meditations''. The fourth movement of ''A Love Supreme'', "Psalm", is, in fact, a musical setting for an original poem to God written by Coltrane, and printed in the album's liner notes. Coltrane plays almost exactly one note for each syllable of the poem, and bases his phrasing on the words. Despite its challenging musical content, the album was a commercial success by jazz standards, encapsulating both the internal and external energy of the quartet of Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison. Indeed the previous album ''Crescent'' recorded only a few months before already shows the adventurousness and rapport between these musicians. The album was composed at Coltrane's home in Dix Hills on Long Island.
The quartet only played ''A Love Supreme'' live once—in July 1965 at a concert in Antibes, France. By then, Coltrane's music had grown even more adventurous, and the performance provides an interesting contrast to the original.
Avant-garde jazz and the second quartet (1965–1967)
In his late period, Coltrane showed an increasing interest in avant-garde jazz, purveyed by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra and others. In developing his late style, Coltrane was especially influenced by the dissonance of Ayler's trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed with Cecil Taylor as leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably Archie Shepp), and under his influence Impulse! became a leading free jazz record label.After ''A Love Supreme'' was recorded, Ayler's apocalyptic style became more prominent in Coltrane's music. A series of recordings with the Classic Quartet in the first half of 1965 show Coltrane's playing becoming increasingly abstract, with greater incorporation of devices like multiphonics, utilization of overtones, and playing in the altissimo register, as well as a mutated return to Coltrane's sheets of sound. In the studio, he all but abandoned his soprano to concentrate on the tenor saxophone. In addition, the quartet responded to the leader by playing with increasing freedom. The group's evolution can be traced through the recordings ''The John Coltrane Quartet Plays'', ''Living Space'', ''Transition'' (both June 1965), ''New Thing at Newport'' (July 1965), ''Sun Ship'' (August 1965), and ''First Meditations'' (September 1965).
In June 1965, he went into Van Gelder's studio with ten other musicians (including Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Marion Brown, and John Tchicai) to record ''Ascension'', a 40-minute long piece that included adventurous solos by the young avant-garde musicians (as well as Coltrane), and was controversial primarily for the collective improvisation sections that separated the solos. After recording with the quartet over the next few months, Coltrane invited Pharoah Sanders to join the band in September 1965.
By any measure, Sanders was one of the most abrasive, virtuosic saxophonists then playing. While Coltrane used over-blowing frequently as an emotional exclamation-point, Sanders would opt to overblow his entire solo, resulting in a constant screaming and screeching in the altissimo range of the instrument. The more Coltrane played with Sanders, the more he gravitated to Sanders' unique sound.
Adding to the quartet
By late 1965, Coltrane was regularly augmenting his group with Sanders and other free jazz musicians. Rashied Ali joined the group as a second drummer. This was the end of the quartet; claiming he was unable to hear himself over the two drummers, Tyner left the band shortly after the recording of ''Meditations''. Jones left in early 1966, dissatisfied by sharing drumming duties with Ali. Both Tyner and Jones subsequently expressed displeasure in interviews, after Coltrane's death, with the music's new direction, while incorporating some of the free-jazz form's intensity into their own solo projects.There are speculations that in 1965 Coltrane may have begun using LSD – informing the sublime, "cosmic" transcendence of his late period. After Jones's and Tyner's departures, Coltrane led a quintet with Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone, his second wife Alice Coltrane on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums. Coltrane and Sanders were described by Nat Hentoff as "speaking in tongues". When touring, the group was known for playing very lengthy versions of their repertoire, many stretching beyond 30 minutes and sometimes even being an hour long. Concert solos for band members regularly extended beyond fifteen minutes in duration.
Despite the radicalism of the horns, the rhythm section with Ali and Alice Coltrane had a more relaxed, random but meditative feel than with Jones and Tyner. The group can be heard on several live recordings from 1966, including ''Live at the Village Vanguard Again!'' and ''Live in Japan''. In 1967, Coltrane entered the studio several times; though pieces with Sanders have surfaced (the unusual "To Be", which features both men on flutes), most of the recordings were either with the quartet minus Sanders (''Expression'' and ''Stellar Regions'') or as a duo with Ali. The latter duo produced six performances which appear on the album ''Interstellar Space''.
Death and funeral
Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital on Long Island on July 17, 1967, at the age of 40. His funeral was held on Friday, July 21 at St. Peters Lutheran Church in New York City. The Albert Ayler Quartet and The Ornette Coleman Quartet respectively opened and closed the service. He is buried at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale, N.Y.Biographer Lewis Porter has suggested, somewhat controversially, that the cause of Coltrane's illness was hepatitis, although he also attributed the disease to Coltrane's heroin use. In a 1968 interview Albert Ayler claimed that Coltrane was consulting a Hindu meditative healer for his illness instead of Western medicine, though Alice Coltrane later denied this.
His death surprised many in the musical community who were not aware of his condition. Miles Davis commented: "Coltrane's death shocked everyone, took everyone by surprise. I knew he hadn't looked too good... But I didn't know he was that sick—or even sick at all."
The Coltrane family reportedly remains in possession of much more as-yet-unreleased music, mostly mono reference tapes made for the saxophonist and, as with the 1995 release ''Stellar Regions'', master tapes that were checked out of the studio and never returned. The parent company of Impulse!, from 1965 to 1979 known as ABC Records, purged much of its unreleased material in the 1970s. Lewis Porter has stated that Alice Coltrane, who died in 2007, intended to release this music, but over a long period of time; her son Ravi Coltrane, responsible for reviewing the material, is also pursuing his own career.
Instruments
Coltrane played the clarinet and the alto horn in a community band before taking up the alto saxophone during high school. In 1947, when he joined King Kolax's band, Coltrane switched to tenor saxophone, the instrument he became known for playing primarily. Coltrane's preference for playing melody higher on the range of the tenor saxophone (as compared to Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young) is attributed to his start and training on the alto horn and clarinet; his "sound concept" (manipulated in ones vocal tracts- tongue, throat) of the tenor sax was set higher than the normal range of the instrument.In the early 1960s, during his engagement with Atlantic Records, he increasingly played soprano saxophone as well. The cover of his album ''My Favorite Things'' features Coltrane playing soprano. Toward the end of his career, he experimented with flute in his live performances and studio recordings.
Religious beliefs
Coltrane was born and raised in a Christian home, and was influenced by religion and spirituality from childhood. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend William Blair, was a preacher at an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in High Point, North Carolina, and John's paternal grandfather, Reverend William H. Coltrane, was an A.M.E. Zion minister in Hamlet, North Carolina. John's parents met through church affiliation, and married in 1925. John was born in 1926. As a youth, John practiced music in the southern African-American church. In ''A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in Jazz'', Norman Weinstein notes the parallel between Coltrane's music and his experience in the southern church.In 1955, Coltrane married Juanita Naima Grubbs, a Muslim convert, (for whom he later wrote the piece "Naima"), and came into contact with Islam. Coltrane explored Hinduism, the Kabbalah, Jiddu Krishnamurti, African history, and the philosophical teachings of Plato and Aristotle. Coltrane also became interested in Zen Buddhism and, later in his career, visited Buddhist temples during his 1966 tour of Japan.
Since 1948, Coltrane had struggled with heroin addiction as well as alcoholism. In 1957, Coltrane had a religious experience which may have been what finally led him to overcome his addictions to alcohol and heroin. In the liner notes of ''A Love Supreme'' (released in 1965) Coltrane states "[d]uring the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music." In his 1965 album ''Meditations'', Coltrane wrote about uplifting people, "...To inspire them to realize more and more of their capacities for living meaningful lives. Because there certainly is meaning to life."
John and Naima Coltrane had no children together and were separated by the summer of 1963, and not long after that John met pianist Alice McLeod (who soon became Alice Coltrane). John and Alice moved in together and had two sons before he was "officially divorced from Naima in 1966, at which time John and Alice were immediately married." John Jr. was born in 1964, Ravi was born in 1965, and Oranyan (Oran) was born in 1967. According to Lavezzoli, "Alice brought happiness and stability to John's life, not only because they had children, but also because they shared many of the same spiritual beliefs, particularly a mutual interest in Indian philosophy. Alice also understood what it was like to be a professional musician".
Moustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, argues that Coltrane's ''A Love Supreme'' (recorded in December 1964 and released in 1965) features Coltrane chanting, "Allah Supreme." However, in Lewis Porter's book ''John Coltrane: His Life and Music'' (2000), on page 242, he describes the lyrics this way: "Coltrane and another voice—probably himself overdubbed—chant the words 'a love supreme' in unison with the bass ostinato". In Peter Lavezzoli's book ''The Dawn of Indian Music in the West: Bhairavi'' (2006), on page 283, he says, "Certainly in his opening solo in "Acknowledgment," with his constant modulations of the same phrase in different keys, Coltrane assumes the role of the preacher. After stating the theme in every possible key, Coltrane concludes his solo and quietly begins to chant, "A love supreme … a love supreme," singing the same four notes played by Garrison on the bass. After chanting "A love supreme" sixteen times, Coltrane and the band shift from F minor down to E flat minor, and the chant slowly tapers off." Whatever the case may be, the liner notes to ''A Love Supreme'' appear to mention God in a Universalist sense, and do not advocate one religion over another. Further evidence of this universal view regarding spirituality can be found in the liner notes of ''Meditations'' (1965), in which Coltrane declares, "I believe in all religions."
Lavezzoli points out that "After ''A Love Supreme'', most of Coltrane's song and album titles had spiritual implications: ''Ascension'', ''Om'', ''Selflessness'', ''Meditations'', "Amen," "Ascent," "Attaining," "Dear Lord," "Prayer and Meditation Suite," and the opening movement of ''Meditations'', "The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost," the most obvious Christian reference in any of Coltrane's work." Coltrane's collection of books included ''The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna'', the Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda's ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', which, Lavezzoli points out, "recounts Yogananda's search for universal truth, a journey that Coltrane had also undertaken. Yogananda believed that both Eastern and Western spiritual paths were efficacious, and wrote of the similarities between Krishna and Christ. This openness to different traditions resonated with Coltrane, who studied the Qur'an, the Bible, Kabbalah, and astrology with equal sincerity."
In October 1965, Coltrane recorded ''Om'', referring to the sacred syllable in Hinduism, which symbolizes the infinite or the entire Universe. Coltrane described ''Om'' as the "first syllable, the primal word, the word of power". The 29-minute recording contains chants from the ''Bhagavad-Gita'', a Hindu holy book, as well as Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders chanting from a Buddhist text, ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead'', and reciting a passage describing the primal verbalization "om" as a cosmic/spiritual common denominator in all things.
Coltrane's spiritual journey was interwoven with his investigation into world music. He believed not only in a universal musical structure which transcended ethnic distinctions, but in being able to harness the mystical language of music itself. Coltrane's study of Indian music led him to believe that certain sounds and scales could "produce specific emotional meanings." According to Coltrane, the goal of a musician was to understand these forces, control them, and elicit a response from the audience. Coltrane said: "I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed."
Legacy
The influence Coltrane has had on music spans many different genres and musicians. Coltrane's massive influence on jazz, both mainstream and avant-garde, began during his lifetime and continued to grow after his death. He is one of the most dominant influences on post-1960 jazz saxophonists and has inspired an entire generation of jazz musicians. In 1965, he was inducted into the ''Down Beat'' Jazz Hall of Fame. In 1972, ''A Love Supreme'' was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over half a million copies in Japan. This album, as well as ''My Favorite Things'', was certified gold in the United States in 2001. In 1982 Coltrane was awarded a posthumous Grammy for "Best Jazz Solo Performance" on the album ''Bye Bye Blackbird'', and in 1997, was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.His widow, Alice Coltrane, after several decades of seclusion, briefly regained a public profile before her death in 2007. Coltrane's son, Ravi Coltrane, named after the great Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, who was greatly admired by Coltrane, has followed in his father's footsteps and is a prominent contemporary saxophonist. A former home, the John Coltrane House in Philadelphia, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999. His last home, the John Coltrane Home in the Dix Hills neighborhood of Huntington, New York, where he resided from 1964 until his death in 1967, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 2007.
His revolutionary use of multi-tonic systems in jazz has become a widespread composition and reharmonization technique known as "Coltrane changes".
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed John Coltrane on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
Coltrane's tenor (Selmer Mark VI, serial number 125571, dated 1965) and soprano (Selmer Mark VI, serial number 99626, dated 1962) saxophones were auctioned on February 20, 2005 to raise money for the John Coltrane Foundation. The soprano raised $70,800 but the tenor remained unsold.
Sainthood
The African Orthodox Church canonized Coltrane in 1982. However, the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, San Francisco, which is fondly known as the "Coltrane church", is the only African Orthodox church which incorporates Coltrane's music and his lyrics as prayers in its liturgy. A documentary on Coltrane, featuring this San Francisco branch of the church and presented by Alan Yentob, was produced for the BBC in 2004. Samuel G. Freedman writes in his ''New York Times'' article "Sunday Religion Inspired By Saturday Nights", December 1, 2007,... the Coltrane church is not a gimmick or a forced alloy of nightclub music and ethereal faith. Its message of deliverance through divine sound is actually quite consistent with Coltrane’s own experience and message.In the same article, he comments on John Coltrane's place in the canon of American music.
In both implicit and explicit ways, Coltrane also functioned as a religious figure. Addicted to heroin in the 1950s, he quit cold turkey, and later explained that he had heard the voice of God during his anguishing withdrawal. In 1964, he recorded ''A Love Supreme'', an album of original praise music in a free-jazz mode... In 1966, an interviewer in Japan asked Coltrane what he hoped to be in five years, and Coltrane replied, "A saint."
John Coltrane is depicted as one of the ninety saints in the monumental Dancing Saints icon of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The Dancing Saints icon is a painting rendered in the Byzantine iconographic style that wraps around the entire church rotunda. The icon was executed by iconographer Mark Dukes, an ordained deacon at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, who has painted other icons of Coltrane for the Coltrane Church. Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey included Coltrane on their list of historical black saints and even made a "case for sainthood" for him in an article on their former website.
Discography
''Discography below lists albums conceived and approved by Coltrane as a leader during his lifetime. It does not include his many releases as a sideman, sessions assembled into albums by various record labels after Coltrane's contract expired, sessions with Coltrane as a sideman later reissued with his name featured more prominently, or posthumous compilations except for the one which he approved before his death. See main discography link above for full list.''
Prestige and Blue Note Records
Atlantic Records
Impulse! Records
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| Name | Eric Dolphy |
|---|---|
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth name | Eric Allan Dolphy |
| Born | June 20, 1928Los Angeles, California |
| Died | June 29, 1964 Berlin, Germany |
| Instrument | Alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, soprano clarinet, piccolo |
| Genre | Jazz, avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation | Bandleader, composer, sideman |
| Years active | 1949–1964 |
| Label | VerveImpulse!PrestigeBlue NoteMercury | |
| Associated acts | Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Booker Little |
| Notable instruments | Bass clarinet, alto saxophone, flute }} |
Biography
Early life
Dolphy was born in Los Angeles and was educated at Los Angeles City College. He performed locally for several years, most notably as a member of bebop big bands led by Gerald Wilson and Roy Porter. On early recordings, he occasionally played soprano clarinet and baritone saxophone, as well as his main instrument, the alto saxophone. Dolphy finally had his big break as a member of Chico Hamilton's quintet. With the group he became known to a wider audience and was able to tour extensively through 1959, when he parted ways with Hamilton and moved to New York City.
Early partnerships
John Coltrane had gained an audience and critical notice with Miles Davis's quintet. Although Coltrane's quintets with Dolphy (including the Village Vanguard and ''Africa/Brass'' sessions) are now legendary, they provoked ''Down Beat'' magazine to brand Coltrane and Dolphy's music as 'anti-jazz'. Coltrane later said of this criticism: "they made it appear that we didn't even know the first thing about music (...) it hurt me to see [Dolphy] get hurt in this thing."The initial release of Coltrane's stay at the Vanguard selected three tracks, only one of which featured Dolphy. After being issued haphazardly over the next 30 years, a comprehensive box set featuring all of the recorded music from the Vanguard was released by Impulse! in 1997. ''The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings'' carried over 15 tracks featuring Dolphy on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, adding a new dimension to these already classic recordings. A later Pablo box set from Coltrane's European tours of the early 1960s collected more recordings with Dolphy for the buying public.
During this period, Dolphy also played in a number of challenging settings, notably in key recordings by Ornette Coleman (''Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation''), arranger Oliver Nelson (''The Blues and the Abstract Truth'' and ''Straight Ahead'') and George Russell (''Ezz-thetics''), but also with Gunther Schuller, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, multi-instrumentalist Ken McIntyre, and bassist Ron Carter among others.
As a leader
Dolphy's recording career as a leader began with the Prestige label. His association with the label spanned across 13 albums recorded from April 1960 to September 1961, though he was not the leader for all of the sessions. Fantasy eventually released a 9-CD box set containing all of Dolphy's recorded output for Prestige.Dolphy's first two albums as leader were ''Outward Bound'' and ''Out There''. The first, more accessible and rooted more in the style of bop than some later releases, was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey with hard-bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. However the album still offered up challenging performances, which at least partly accounts for the record label's choice to include "out" in the title. ''Out There'' is closer to the third stream music which would also form part of Dolphy's legacy, and reminiscent also of the instrumentation of the Hamilton group with Ron Carter on cello and Dolphy on bass clarinet, clarinet and flute as well as saxophones.
''Far Cry'' was also recorded for Prestige in 1960 and represented his first pairing with trumpeter Booker Little, a like-minded spirit with whom he would make a set of legendary live recordings at the Five Spot in New York before Little's death at the age of 23.
Dolphy would record several unaccompanied cuts on saxophone, which at the time had been done only by Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins before him. The album ''Far Cry'' contains one of his more memorable performances on the Gross-Lawrence standard "Tenderly" on alto saxophone, but it was his subsequent tour of Europe that quickly set high standards for solo performance with his exhilarating bass clarinet renditions of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child". Numerous recordings were made of live performances by Dolphy on this tour, in Copenhagen, Uppsala and other cities, and these have been issued by many sometimes dubious record labels, drifting in and out of print ever since.
20th century classical music also played a significant role in Dolphy's musical career. He performed Edgard Varèse's ''Density 21.5'' for solo flute at the Ojai Music Festival in 1962 and participated in Gunther Schuller's Third Stream efforts of the 1960s.
In July 1963, Dolphy and producer Alan Douglas arranged recording sessions for which his sidemen were among the leading emerging musicians of the day. The results were his ''Iron Man'' and ''Conversations'' LPs. Around this time Dolphy's pianist was occasionally the young Herbie Hancock, this group was recorded at the ''Illinois Concert'' and others.
In 1964, Dolphy signed with Blue Note Records and recorded ''Out to Lunch!'' with Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Tony Williams. This album was deeply rooted in the avant garde, and Dolphy's solos are as dissonant and unpredictable as anything he ever recorded. ''Out to Lunch'', his last major studio recording, is often considered his magnum opus.
Final months
After ''Out to Lunch!'' and an appearance as a sideman on Andrew Hill's ''Point of Departure'', Dolphy left to tour Europe with Charles Mingus' sextet in early 1964. (Dolphy also played with Mingus in 1960, as heard on the ''Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus'' and ''Mingus at Antibes'' albums). From there he intended to settle in Europe with his fiancée, who was working on the ballet scene in Paris. The Mingus band for this tour was extensively recorded, including on the ''Cornell 1964'' album and is one of Mingus' strongest line-ups, including Dolphy and pianist Jaki Byard. After leaving Mingus, he performed with and recorded a few sides with various European bands, including the mis-named ''Last Date'' with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink, and was preparing to join Albert Ayler for a recording.Eric Dolphy died accidentally in Berlin on June 28, 1964. The circumstances of his passing are disputed. The liner notes to the ''Complete Prestige Recordings'' boxset say that Dolphy "collapsed in his hotel room in Berlin and when brought to the hospital he was diagnosed as being in a diabetic coma. After being administered a shot of insulin (apparently a type stronger than what was then available in the US) he lapsed into insulin shock and died." A later documentary and liner note disputes this, saying Dolphy collapsed on stage in Berlin and was brought to a hospital. The attending hospital physicians had no idea that Dolphy was a diabetic and decided on a stereotypical view of jazz musicians related to substance abuse, that he had overdosed on drugs. He was left in a hospital bed for the drugs to run their course.
Dolphy was posthumously inducted into the ''Down Beat'' magazine Hall of Fame in 1964. Coltrane paid tribute to Dolphy in an interview: "Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician." Dolphy's mother, Sadie, who had fond memories of her son practicing in the studio by her house, gave instruments that Dolphy had bought in France but never played to Coltrane, who subsequently played the flute and bass clarinet on several albums before his own death in 1967. Dolphy was engaged to be married to Joyce Mordecai, a classically-trained dancer.
Influence
Dolphy's musical presence was hugely influential to a who's who of young jazz musicians who would become legends in their own right. Dolphy worked intermittently with Ron Carter and Freddie Hubbard throughout his career, and in later years he hired Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson and Woody Shaw to work in his live and studio bands. ''Out to Lunch!'' featured yet another young lion who had just begun working with Dolphy in drummer Tony Williams, just as his participation on the ''Point of Departure'' session brought his influence into contact with up and coming tenor man Joe Henderson.Carter, Hancock and Williams would go on to become one of the quintessential rhythm sections of the decade, both together on their own albums and as the backbone of the second great quintet of Miles Davis. This part of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was not fond of Dolphy's music (in a 1964 ''Down Beat'' Blindfold Test, Miles famously quipped, "The next time I see [Dolphy] I'm going to step on his foot.") yet absorbed a rhythm section who had all worked under Dolphy and created a band whose brand of "out" was unsurprisingly very similar to Dolphy's.
In addition, his work with jazz and rock producer Alan Douglas allowed Dolphy's style to posthumously spread to musicians in the jazz fusion and rock environments, most notably with artists John McLaughlin and Jimi Hendrix. Frank Zappa, a highly influential composer who drew his inspiration from a variety of musical styles and idioms, paid tribute to Dolphy's style in the instrumental "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" (on the 1970 album ''Weasels Ripped My Flesh'').
Discography
As leader
;Prestige Records;Blue Note
;Other labels
As sideman
With Ornette Coleman
References
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| name | Stan Getz |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth name | Stanley Gayetzky |
| known as | Stan Getz Nickname "The Sound" for his unique and polished style |
| born | February 02, 1927Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| died | June 06, 1991Malibu, California, U.S. |
| instrument | Tenor saxophone |
| genre | JazzBossa novaWest coast jazzCool jazz |
| occupation | Saxophonist |
| years active | 1943–1991 |
| label | Verve Records |
| associated acts | Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, J.J. Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Byrd, Chet Baker, Gary Burton, Cal Tjader, Woody Herman, João Gilberto,Tom Jobim, Victor Lewis |
| notable instruments | }} |
Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz went on to perform in bebop, cool jazz and third stream, but is perhaps best known for popularizing the bossa nova, as in the worldwide hit single "The Girl from Ipanema" (1964).
Life and career
Getz was born on February 2, 1927, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Ukrainian Jews who emigrated from the Kiev, Ukraine area in 1903. The family later moved to New York City for better employment opportunities. Getz worked hard in school, receiving straight As, and finished sixth grade close to the top of his class. Getz's major interest was in musical instruments, and he felt a need to play every instrument in sight. He played a number of them before his father bought him his first saxophone at the age of 13. Even though his father also got him a clarinet, Getz instantly fell in love with the saxophone and began practicing eight hours a day.He attended James Monroe High School (New York) in the Bronx. In 1941, he was accepted into the All City High School Orchestra of New York City. This gave him a chance to receive private, free tutoring from the New York Philharmonic's Simon Kovar, a bassoon player. He also continued playing the saxophone. His tenor saxophone of choice was the Selmer Mark VI. On early recordings he had used a White Plastic Brilhart Tonalin mouthpiece. He eventually dropped out of school in order to pursue his musical career, but was later sent back to the classroom by the school system's truancy officers.
In 1943 at the age of 16, he was accepted into Jack Teagarden's band, and because of his youth he became Teagarden's ward. Getz also played along with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton. After playing for Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Goodman, Getz was a soloist with Woody Herman from 1947 to 1949 in 'The Second Herd', and he first gained wide attention as one of the band's saxophonists, who were known collectively as 'The Four Brothers', the others being Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward. With Herman, he had a hit with "Early Autumn" and after Getz left 'The Second Herd' he was able to launch his solo career. He would be the leader on almost all of his recording sessions after 1950.
In the mid to late 1950s working from Scandinavia, Getz became popular playing cool jazz with Horace Silver, Johnny Smith, Oscar Peterson, and many others. His first two quintets were notable for their personnel, including Charlie Parker's rhythm section of drummer Roy Haynes, pianist Al Haig and bassist Tommy Potter. A 1953 line-up of the Dizzy Gillespie/Stan Getz Sextet featured Gillespie, Getz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Max Roach.
Returning to the U.S. from Europe in 1961, Getz became a central figure in introducing bossa nova music to the American audience. Teaming with guitarist Charlie Byrd, who had just returned from a U.S. State Department tour of Brazil, Getz recorded ''Jazz Samba'' in 1962 and it became a hit. The title track was an adaptation of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba". Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for "Desafinado," from the same album. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. As a follow-up, Getz recorded the album, ''Jazz Samba Encore!'', with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfa. It also sold more than a million copies by 1964, giving Getz his second gold disc.
He then recorded the album ''Getz/Gilberto'', in 1963, with Tom Jobim, João Gilberto and his wife, Astrud Gilberto. Their "The Girl from Ipanema" won a Grammy Award. The piece became one of the most well-known latin jazz tracks. ''Getz/Gilberto'' won two Grammys (Best Album and Best Single). A live album, ''Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2,'' followed, as did ''Getz Au Go Go,'' a live recording at the Cafe Au Go Go. Getz's affair with Astrud Gilberto brought an end to his musical partnership with her and her husband, and he began to move away from bossa nova and back to cool jazz. While still working with the Gilbertos, he recorded the jazz album ''Nobody Else But Me,'' with a new quartet including vibraphonist Gary Burton, but Verve Records, wishing to continue building the Getz brand with bossa nova, refused to release it. It eventually came out 30 years later, after Getz had died.
In 1972, Getz recorded in the fusion idiom with Chick Corea Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke. Corea and Clarke would go on to form RETURN TO FOREVER, first with drummer Airto, then Lenny White. Many of the pieces, including "La Fiesta", remained in their repertoire. In this period Getz experimented with an Echoplex on his saxophone. He had a cameo in the movie, ''The Exterminator'' (1980).
Toward the end of his life, the then drug-free Getz, had another creative peak with a group including the pianist Kenny Barron, whom Getz described as "my musical other half."
In the mid-1980s Getz worked regularly in the San Francisco Bay area and taught at Stanford University as an artist-in-residence at the Stanford Jazz Workshop until 1988. In 1986, he was inducted into the ''Down Beat'' Jazz Hall of Fame. During 1988, Getz worked with Huey Lewis and the News on their ''Small World'' album. He played the extended solo on the title track, which became a minor hit single.
Personal life
Getz married Beverly Byrne, a vocalist with the Gene Krupa band, on November 7, 1946; they had three children together: Steven, David, and Beverly.Getz became involved with drugs and alcohol while a teenager. In 1954, he was arrested for attempting to rob a pharmacy to get a morphine fix. As he was being processed in the prison ward of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Beverly gave birth to their third child one floor below. Getz tried to escape his narcotics addiction by moving to Copenhagen. He married Swedish aristocrat Monica Silfverskiöld on November 3, 1956, and had two children with her: Pamela and Nicolas. Getz divorced Monica in 1987.
Zoot Sims, who had known Getz since their time with Herman, once described him as 'a nice bunch of guys', as a consequence of the wide behavioural range of which Getz was capable. In the final stages of his life Getz was able to end his addictions.
Getz died of liver cancer in June 6, 1991. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered at sea, off the coast of Malibu, California.
In 1998, the 'Stan Getz Media Center and Library' at the Berklee College of Music was dedicated through a donation from the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Discography
Compositions
Stan Getz's compositions include "Running Water", "Chocolate Sundae" with Gerry Mulligan, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and Oscar Peterson, "Stan's Blues", "Tootsie Roll", "For Stompers Only", "S'cool Boy", "Ah-Moore (Amour)", "Apasionado" with Herb Alpert and Eddie Del Barrio, "Coba", "Espanola", "Amorous Cat", "Prezervation", "Crazy Chords", "Tour's End", "And The Angels Swing", "Long Island Sound", "Half-breed Apache", "Bronx Blues", "Blues for Herky", "Downbeat", "Pocono Mac", and "Blues for Mary Jane".
Bibliography
References
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Tenor giants John Coltrane and Stan Getz lead an incredible group through a tune claimed by both Thelonius Monk (Hackensack) and Coleman Hawkins (Rifftide). Oscar Peterson sits in on piano with the incomparable rhythm section of Paul Chambe...
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