With this latest edition of the Originals box sets collecting saxophonist John Coltrane's albums for the Impulse! label, the series reaches the critically-polarised period immediately following the ...

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CD 1: 01. But Not For Me (George Gershwin) - 11:44; 02. Lonnie's Lament (John Coltrane) - 15:25; 03. Say It Over And Over Again (Frank Lesser) - 11:57; 04. Impressions (John Coltrane) - 16:19. CD 2: ...

He was as mortal as the rest of us, yet few of us publicly vow that we “want to be a force for good” like John Coltrane did. Initially he was just another young saxophonist who came of age in the ...

Rhino Records is launching a quarterly series of limited-edition vinyl releases intended to appeal to LP-loving audiophiles, with records that are cut directly from analog sources by one of the most ...

Any newly discovered music from a legend on the order of John Coltrane is an event. But the reason advance buzz has been particularly feverish for Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, a previously ...

Sooner or later, a dinner function might come up out of nowhere and catch you sleeping on the iconic saxophonist's discography. So here's a... The Cocktail Party Guide To John Coltrane The Cocktail ...

It’s big news that a previously unknown recording by John Coltrane, one that was believed to have been lost, has been found and is being issued on Friday, by Impulse! Records. That recording, “Both ...

After years of playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, saxophonist and composer John Coltrane began to emerge as a jazz pioneer at the end of the 1950s. A few months after ...

The release of alternate takes has special significance in jazz, for obvious reasons. Even though no performance of composed music is precisely repeatable—and loving classical music implies being ...

In 1963, John Coltrane was something rare in jazz—a commercial success and an innovator who was always pushing the artform to new and interesting places. What’s more, he was the leader of one of the ...