Much has changed in the musical life of renowned composer and director John Carpenter since 2016 s Lost Themes II. Following the release of that album, he went on his first-ever concert tour, performing material from the Lost Themes albums, as well as music from his classic film scores. He re-recorded many of those classic movie themes for 2017 s Anthology album,…
John Carroll Kirby is a producer, composer and keyboardist from Los Angeles. His new album Blowout was inspired by the local people, music and nature of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica where he spent time filming a new episode of his travelogue series Kirby’s Gold. Blowout follows some of Kirby’s iconic works such as My Garden,…
All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of John Coltrane s Live at the Village Vanguard Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP, and Housed in Stoughton Gatefold Jacket John Coltrane s first official live album was recorded at the iconic Greenwich Village jazz club in NYC in November 1961 and released on the Impulse! label the…
Right from the very first hearing, absolutely every single jazzcritic shared the same opinion – whether trained musicians or not, true or would-be jazz expert: A Love Supreme is John Coltrane s most important recording. And the rave reviews which appeared in the magazines Downbeat, Jazz Hot, Jazz Podium and Swingjournal reflected this: critics all…
All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of John Coltrane s A Love Supreme Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP, and Housed in Stoughton Gatefold Jacket Some music is so finely crafted that the genre in which it is conceived becomes irrelevant to the music itself. Such was the case with much of the work…
Newly Discovered Late 1965 Live Recording of Trane s Magnum Opus A Love Supreme Produced by Engineer Kevin Reeves with Extensive Liner Notes by Music Historian Ashley Kahn! After nearly six decades, a private recording of a rare, nightclub performance by John Coltrane of his magnum opus, A Love Supreme, is available for the first time on vinyl 2LP courtesy…
While John Coltrane s legacy largely focuses on his innovative and influential work as a leader, the saxophonist and composer began his career as a highly respected sideman, who rose to fame playing alongside some of the greatest names in jazz. Craft Recordings new release, Another Side of John Coltrane, explores this aspect of the trailblazing artist s…
Before this ballad album was released, John Coltrane s critics and jazz fans classed him as an avant-gardist, a modernist, an angry, wild young man who made his tenor saxophone scream out. Tongues wagged that free jazz could be made by just anyone who hung a horn around his neck. These eight Ballads made people stop and…
John Coltrane only recorded one album as a leader for Blue Note, but it was the turning point of his career and one of his greatest hours. 31 at the time of 1957’s Blue Train, Coltrane had been largely unknown just two years earlier. In 1955 he began a very important two-year stint with Miles Davis that gave…
All-Analog Mono 180g Vinyl LP of John Coltrane s Blue Train Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Joe Harley On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder s living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first…
On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder s living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his first great masterpiece:Â Blue Train. It would be the legendary saxophonist s sole album as a leader for Blue Note, a locomotive 5-track album fueled by the bluesy title track that featured a dynamic…
In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled Le Chat Dans Le Sac (The Cat in the Bag). In June of that year, Coltrane s classic quartet entered Rudy Van Gelder s studio and recorded five previously-recorded Coltrane originals. For many years, viewers…
Previously Unheard John Coltrane LP Recorded at Van Gelder Studios in 1963 with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones: Both Sides at Once: The Lost Album Is a Gift to Music Lovers Sonny Rollins nails the significance and thrill of Both Sides at Once: The Lost Album, a previously unheard John Coltrane recording captured at Van Gelder Studios at…
After establishing himself as a star on the rise with the Miles Davis quintet, the Thelonious Monk quartet, and various Prestige recordings with Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, and Tadd Dameron, John Coltrane made his debut as a leader on this excellent LP. The album includes Trane s own compositions such as Straight Street and Chronic Blues, alongside…
Numbered 180g 45RPM 2LP-Set from ORG Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Master Tapes Recorded on October 24, 1960 in NYC, Coltrane Plays The Blues is perhaps a misleading title for this album as John Coltrane is not so much playing the blues as bringing the feeling of blues into the idiom of jazz. This memorable release,…
In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group was recently discovered at the New York Public Library. The recordings were made by engineer Rich Alderson as part of a test of the Village Gate…