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John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
With Translinear Light Coltrane has created a work that honestly and unassumingly demonstrates the healing power of music, bypassing more intellectual concerns and instead going straight for the heart of the matter." [9] AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek wrote: "Translinear Light is a major entry in Coltrane's catalog. It is a defining ...
It was the idea of new producer Bob Thiele to record Coltrane live over four nights in early November, Thiele meeting the saxophonist for the first time face-to-face at the club. [2] This commenced a close working relationship between Thiele and Coltrane that would last for the rest of the saxophonist's time at Impulse.
Interstellar Space was released in September 1974 by Impulse!Records. [20] In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music journalist Stephen Davis called the album "plainly astounding" and found Ali to be the ideal complement for Coltrane's mystical ideas: "He outlandishly returns the unrelenting outpour of energy spewing from Trane, and the result is a two-man vulcanism in which Ali ...
The original release of "Ogunde" features Coltrane on tenor, Rashied Ali on drums, Alice Coltrane on piano, and Jimmy Garrison on bass. [2] The Olatunji Concert release also features percussionists Juma Santos and Algie de Witt [7] and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, [4] who makes a single appearance in Expression on "To Be", [2] on piccolo flute. [5]
Coltrane's group played at the Half Note from March 19–April 4 [3] and again from May 4–9 [4] of that year. The Half Note recordings were made shortly after the February 17–18 studio recordings, [ 5 ] and shortly before the May 17 studio recordings, [ 6 ] that would appear on The John Coltrane Quartet Plays .
Giant Steps is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane.It was released in February 1960 through Atlantic Records. [1] [2] [4] This was Coltrane's first album as leader for the label, with which he had signed a new contract the previous year.
"Naima" (/ n aɪ ˈ iː m ə / ny-EE-mə) is a jazz ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959 that he named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs. Coltrane first recorded it for his 1959 album Giant Steps, and it became one of his first well-known works.