Do yourself a favor, and spend a few mintues of your life listening closely to the music in the clip above. Put everything else out of your mind, and just try to absorb it all at once. Listen to the musical conversation.
A Love Supreme is an obvious masterpiece, but my favorite is the album that preceded it, Crescent. It's often said to be the calm before A Love Supreme's storm.
Do yourself a favor, and spend a few mintues of your life listening closely to the music in the clip above. Put everything else out of your mind, and just try to absorb it all at once. Listen to the musical conversation.
Most here won't, not with the current "no more front logo on inserts?" crisis in full swing.
One of the many tragedies of this board is that a thread on John Coltrane gets fewer posts than a topic on "Carey Mulligan." I'll bet a thread on Gerry Mulligan gets even less responses than this one.
Sad that John Coltrane died so young in July 1967 at the age of 40. The number of recordings he performed on is huge, almost as if he knew he was running out of time.
I always enjoy 'Giant Steps' the title track of Coltrane's 1960 album. The first for which all tracks were composed by, Coltrane, himself
Coltrane had almost as many phases as Miles did. It's always the great artists who grow and challenge themselves, experiment, and innovate. It's hard to believe that Coltrane and Sonny Rollins started off neck and neck in the late 1950s, with Sonny having the early "lead." Coltrane eventually blew--no pun intended--past him and everyone else on tenor-and soprano sax, too. The only problem now is that there are zillions of Coltrane-influenced soundalikes on tenor sax!
The first Coltrane album I bought was Giant Steps, the first one that really hooked me was the aforementioned Crescent. This NPR blog asks the same question: What's the first John Coltrane album you fell in love with?
What's the first John Coltrane album you fell in love with?
For me, it was the 1962 Impulse! album simply titled "Coltrane" (not to be confused with the 1957 Prestige album of the same name). If I remember correctly, it was also the first Coltrane CD I ever purchased. The album straddles the fence both chronologically and stylistically between his more traditional hard bop recordings and the more experimental free-form style that he and his amazing quartet (featuring my favorite drummer of all time, Elvin Jones, whom I like to call The Octopus) would explore and develop well into the 60s.
