John Coltrane
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If you think about players I grew up listening to: Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Bird (Charlie Parker), Stan Getz and John Coltrane… Outside of their own music and the blues, they were playing lots of great songs
I had to be very strategic in how I incorporated jazz licks in that setting. I remember I had a 64-bar solo over a ballad, 'Me, Myself and I.' It was like a slow groove. Initially, I came out trying to sound like Charlie Parker or John Coltrane!
I had a pretty clear idea of why I wanted to get involved with this ... It wasn't because I was the son of John Coltrane or Alice Coltrane. It was because I loved music. I've felt that way about music my whole life.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Brunch and dinner with jazz accompaniment
Jazz by day or jazz by night, take your pick. On Long Island, you can listen to the music of John Coltrane or Miles Davis live while enjoying brunch or dinner. Here are four spots where you'll find live jazz in the most unexpected places. Read more »
Around the web
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News: BMI Celebrates June as African-American Music Appreciation Month
at BMI who would define the great American art form for ages, including Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Max Roach, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, among many others. Holiday's vocal style was so unique that producer John Hammond once famously said, from BMI.com Read more »
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Jazz: Reveling in old recordings of Brubeck, Bennett, Coltrane
a recording session in an undated photo. On Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, Verve will issue a recently unearthed recording of the John Coltrane Quartet at the Half Note club in 1965. (Atlantic Records via The New York Times) If the new stuff fails to sell, there's from The Delaware County Times Read more »
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Noel Mengel's top 50 albums
the rock'n'roll era, which meant leaving out some obvious contenders from the words of jazz (Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Frank Sinatra) and country (George Jones, Ray Charles). The other brief was to represent the album as a from The Courier Mail Read more »
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Newly Discovered Camelot-Era Concert Tape Proves Yet Again: Tony Bennett Is Earth’s Coolest Cat
. and . . . Dave Brubeck.” “And” is actually a significant word in jazz. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson. While none of these collaborations sparked the from Vanity Fair Read more »
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Miles and Coltrane
for a limited run, this play tells the story of two of jazz music’s greatest artists – trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane. In August it heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Seating is limited, so purchase tickets in advance. Sign up for from Q City Metro Read more »
