Chicago's Coltrane Motion ("more Roscoe P. than John C. " according to their MySpace page) stopped through Philadelphia's Fishtown section earlier this week to play a late Tuesday night show at The Fire. I first heard the duo's sweet indie electro rock sounds years ago with an mp3 of "Pi Is Exactly Three", a dark and moody song that captivated me immediately. The pair's repertoire is dark and moody electro pop rock that pleases and is perfect for frenzied dance parties. Unfortunately, the sound at the Fire wasn't the best, but that didn't [...]
Words By Jason Hortillas "My Favorite Things" by Substantial is a Hip-Hop take on the Jazz classic of the same name by John Coltrane. Produced by Maryland native Definition, you got to give props on an independent effort that includes live instrumentation. This was a great surprise to start off the morning and groove to. Directed by Matt Hobbs of Vital Films.
Much like yesterday's spotlight , Matt Melis continues to celebrate Black History Month, talking today about the pretty awesome history in jazz. Stick around folks, tomorrow will be a new genre, as will Thursday and Friday. He's hitting 'em all, and considering he's spent a great deal of time on 'em, I recommend you comment away! -Michael Roffman, Editor in Chief "Jazz is safe sex of the highest order." ~ Kurt Vonnegut That's how the late author Kurt Vonnegut chose to describe jazz. I'm not sure that I [...]
The first time I heard A Love Supreme, I was on a train coming back from MacArthur Airport in Islip, Long Island. I was in my senior year of college and had just watched my long-distance boyfriend board a plane back to California. It had been an interesting and emotional trip, as rushed visits between distant lovers can be. He had told me early on in the relationship that he loved me. It was the first time anyone other than a family member or friend had used that word to describe how they felt about me. [...]
The first classic Mile Davis Quintet, recorded in 1955 when they were starting out, playing a Benny Golson tune, 'Stablemates.' Still finding their way at this point, a fascinating glimpse of what was to come when Davis road-hardened the band into a formidable playing and recording unit. With Philly Joe at the drums, they were always going to swing, yet Miles was evolving a new space to operate in, slowly clearing out the harmonic clutter of hard bop to point in new directions. (A process that was ongoing – arguably he had been on this road since [...]
McCoy Tyner began playing piano at the age of 13. By the time he turned 17, he was playing with John Coltrane . Tyner just turned 70 in December, so if my math is correct he's been tickling the ivories for 57 years. The Philly-born pianist was part of Coltrane's formidable quartet from 1960 to 1965, appearing on My Favorite Things , Live at the Village Vanguard and Coltrane's spiritual masterpiece A Love Supreme , recorded in one session in [...]
Todays entree is essentially an ode to popular 60's and early 70'smusic. With a little help from Pitchfork as well as discogs I was able to delve into some much older tracks that have a much more sound generally than most of the electronic music posted here. The tracks range from the classic jazz of coltrane to the early blues rock of the Yardbirds. You can practically hear Clint Eastwood in Ennio's masterpiece soundtrack. My Favorite Things- John Coltrane The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- Ennio Morricone [...]
( pic via ) A celebratory inaugural mix might be in order, but all I want bouncing 'round my noggin' right now's some higher-function skronk... John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Pt 2 Resolution (Live at Antibes 7-26-65)(mp3) ( buy ) ...and a smidge of w00t. Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting(mp3) ( buy ) Got a few rough years ahead, but in some ways that might be what we all need. Happy New President Day, America. You're gonna be just fine. Leave [...]
Bookends – Booker Little, with Booker Ervin beside him in the frontline on a 1960 session, originally issued under the leadership of Teddy Charles. Recorded at the Museum of Modern Art, some fiery blowing here. The track: 'Scoochie.' Ushered in by a sharp burst of drums from Eddie Shaughnessy, who drives the band on throughout. Booker Little takes the first solo, twisting a sure-footed elegance into his lines. Ervin leaps in directly just as he finishes, full-throated tenor spurred on by the drummer's interjections. Mal Waldron follows, utilising his trademark phrase-worrying to good [...]
mp3: John Coltrane - Afro-Blue Posted in imagem, mp3, SoundCheck Tagged: jazz
The concept album is an unusual beast. Sometimes the plot of the album is blatant and clear. Sometimes you know there's a concept there, but couldn't articulate it if you tried. Either way, interweaving and consistent lyrical themes, instrumental motifs and the like produce some of the best albums out there. This list includes all of that, from the clear to the gauzy, from the sublime to the eerie. If you like Rush, Jethro Tull or The Who, this list isn't for you. This list is for those of you that are really smart, cool people. Okay? [...]
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things ...poate cea mai cunoscuta si cea mai frumoasa tema din jazz
It's 2008, this man, this man here, direct blood of John Coltrane (that's newsworthy but not a reason buy the record) has produced a series of records for Warp (great label shite website) that are quite frankly fucking brilliant. The production skills of this boy are ridic. When Gilles Peterson talks about artists joining the dots - it's this man he's talking about. Hip-hop beats and jazz tempos are in his blood - yet it's his love of electronica and dubstep that augment his super silky production skills that really excite me - it's [...]
I was awakened before dawn. A squad of SWAT cops in vests had stepped into the alley to talk over their day. One of them saw me and gave me the courtesy of a thumb signal to vacate the premises. I brushed myself off and complied, walking across Roosevelt Park to a row of tenements slated for destruction. There's a hotel there now. Some of them were inhabited, some not. I went around back and looked for an open window. The first building was all locked up. I scaled a homemade fence made entirely [...]
Coltrane on soprano sax, Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet. John Coltrane -" India " from The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1997) John Coltrane - " Jupiter " from Interstellar Space (1972) I've wanted to do a post on John Coltrane for a while now, and given our recent discussions of "Burning out vs. fading away," I figured now was as good a time as any (Coltrane died at age 40 of liver cancer). I'll start by talking about Coltrane's music. [...]
A Love Supreme Pt. 1 (Acknowledgment) - Brandford Marsalis Quartet Live, 2004 Brandford Marsalis and his quartet cover Coltrane's A Love Supreme . The entire performance is available on DVD and as a part of Marsalis' 2002 album Footsteps of our Father s. The album is considered to be one of (if not) the best of Coltrane's illustriuous catalogue and a definitive jazz album. It combines his masterful hard bop sound with the free form stylings that came to define the latter years of his career. The Smithsonian Institute placed [...]
Filed under: Around the World Spinner.com : Femi Kuti is dragging a bit, recovering from an illness that marred his otherwise triumphant European tour last month. But speaking by phone from his home outside Lagos, Nigeria, he becomes impassioned, his speech growing faster and his voice sharper... Read more
coltrane song of praise live at the half note with McCoy Tyner on piano Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums
Ah, December. The final month of the year. It contains the festival of Hanukkah, sometimes! For journalists - and to a lesser extent their retarded cousins, bloggers - December is a time for looking back over the events of the last three-hundred-thirty-plus days. Across all forms of media, the next four weeks will be filled with cloying fits of nostalgia, hindsight-enriched wistfulness, and even some good-old-fashioned navel-gazing. Please stay tuned to Swan Fungus each Fridays as we conclude each week with a new Year-End list. If you are a regular reader you will recall that I like to end each [...]
I've never spent Christmas in the Caribbean or anywhere warm. Perhaps that is why I've always been drawn to ska and reggae versions of Christmas songs. As a a fan of both skiing and snowboarding, we generally head towards the mountains around the holidays if we go anywhere at all. So for all of you cold weather people (including me on this freezing snowy night in Chicago) here are some jazzy holiday songs to warm you up a bit. MP3 | Dexter Gordon - The Christmas Song [...]
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