Mosaic Records is a company that produces amazing box set reissues under the watchful eye of jazz curator and “spelunker” Michael Cuscuna, who goes deep into the record company jazz…
Sometime around the mid-1980’s, I bought an LP copy of Miles Davis & John Coltrane Live in Stockholm 1960, on the Swedish label Dragon Records. The March 1960 concert featured…
Album Preview: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, spiritual leader and the wife of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937-2007) long stood in her husband’s shadow.
John Coltrane’s Lost Album and His Enduring Legacy
When the iconic jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins compares a musical discovery to “finding a new room in the Great Pyramid,” it’s bound to create both curiosity and excitement. Such was…
If you’re single and a music lover (by that I mean serious, not casual listener) you might have hoped you would meet your perfect match and the music part would…
Show #246: World Music Influences on John Coltrane’s Music
The brilliant jazz artist John Coltrane (1926-1967) is an iconic musician for so many reasons. There are his masterpiece recordings and his mastery of the soprano and tenor saxophones.
I am once again listening to a glorious reissue of my gateway jazz LP, John Coltrane‘s Impressions remastered by the great German label, Speakers Corner Records. They do a fantastic…
This week on Rhythm Planet, we follow the legacy of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme with the spiritual jazz that came in its wake, featuring Alice Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Pharoah Sanders, Kamasi Washington and others.
My music teacher Joe Nazzaretta recently sent me John Coltrane’s funeral service program. I am still moved by anything having to do with this genius of modern music.
Show #148: Coltrane's A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters
John Coltrane’s 1965 album A Love Supreme is not only a musical masterpiece, but also a sublime expression of the human spirit. It is Coltrane’s spiritual essence. Now, 50 years…
