Eclipse john coltrane biography

John Coltrane was in top form—still taking giant steps, if you will—when he died of liver cancer in 1967 at the age of forty.
It's a beautiful song beautifully played in 1963 by the John Coltrane Quartet of Coltrane on tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and.
Like Steve Turre, he has worked with an impressive list of musicians from the jazz and Latin worlds and this 1995 album includes: the late Roy Hargrove on.

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Take the Coltrane

By LAWRENCE COSENTINO

A mighty roar is coming to the MSU College of Music’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration this year, courtesy of an American jazz legend.

Make that two jazz legends.

Charles Tolliver, the clarion trumpeter and composer who coruscated across the jazz scene in the 1960s, will conduct MSU’s powerhouse Jazz Octet Sunday in his own arrangement of the landmark John Coltrane album, “Africa Brass,” as the centerpiece of a multi-faceted celebration of King and his legacy.

By crude medical standards, Coltrane is no longer with us, but he’ll be there, too.

The chance to hear “Africa Brass” live is rarer than a total eclipse. The 1961 album was unique, even in Coltrane’s mind-blowing run of quantum leaps — a stampede of trumpeting elephants, drumming out the cosmic unity of mankind and music and the deep African roots of both.

“This work probably would have been a memory on record, had not Reggie Workman in 1998 asked me to see if I couldn’t transcribe it,” Tol

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Here’s a new way of selecting music for Cosmic Jazz. Neil copied Mazzy’s Whack-a-Mole (US record collector and vlogger Norman Maslov), turned his back on the music shelves and selected five discs at random – and this is what emerged… Derek chose records from his shelves that contrast with Neil’s selections and that he has not listened to for some time.

Finn Peters – Butterflies from Butterflies

We have played this tune on the show previously – way back in February 2009 and soon after its release. Saxophonist and flautist Finn Peters had long immersed himself in dance, hip hop, Afro-Cuban, electronica and contemporary classical musics, before returning to his jazz roots with the excellent Su-Ling album in 2006. The follow-up Butterflies album featured pretty much the same quintet as Su-Ling but added (in a very subtle way) strings, a Balinese gamelan ensemble, kora, synths, a few choruses of birdsong and some inventive sound processing. The result was a jazz album – of sorts. There’s an emphasis on composition

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John Coltrane’s “Alabama” is music that I’m passionate about. For starters, it’s a beautiful song beautifully played in 1963 by the John Coltrane Quartet of Coltrane on tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. If you’re not familiar with the performance, seek it out for a listen – it can be found on the John Coltrane, Live at Birdlandalbum (though “Alabama” is not actually live at Birdland – the album contained three songs that were recorded live at the Birdland club, and originally two studio recordings [with now a third studio track added to the CD issue], one of which is “Alabama”). I also find the song interesting to think about sociologically and historically (in relation to the state of Alabama and the Civil Rights movement and events) as well as in terms of the relationship between music and “content” or between art and world.

Jazz and Civil Rights

In the 1950s and 60s, and into the early 1970s, many jazz musicians used their music to spea