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John Coltrane

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 69: School of Trane – Wayne Shorter, Archie Shepp, Charles Lloyd, & Pharoah Sanders (1964 – 1969)

    Jul 13th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Archie Shepp, Charles Lloyd, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Reggie Workman, Wayne Shorter

    Charles Lloyd No tenor player cast a larger shadow over the 1960’s than John Coltrane. Arguably, that time frame could be expanded to include all decades since, as well. Several contemporary tenor players who emerged as singular and important voices in the 1960s were specifically in his debt: his friend and colleague – Wayne Shorter, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 68: John Coltrane – The Final Act (1961 – 1967)

    Jul 6th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Alice Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Rashied Ali

    John Coltrane John Coltrane is undoubtedly one of the most influential players in the history of jazz, yet his important work fits within a brief twelve-year period (1955 – 1967). Previously in this series we have covered his work in the 1950s with Miles Davis for Prestige and Columbia, his blowing sessions on Prestige, his […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 58: Still Swinging – Ellington, Hodges, Gonsalves, Carter in the 1960s (1960 – 1966)

    Apr 27th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Carter, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus, Charlie Rouse, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Johnny Hodges, Max Roach, Nat Adderley, Paul Gonsalves, Phil Woods, Wynton Kelly

    Duke Ellington – Max Roach – Charles Mingus Duke Ellington and Benny Carter, whose careers stretched back to the 1920s, continued to be vital musical presences in the 1960s. In this hour we will hear examples of their late career work and that of two veteran Ellingtonians, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges and tenor saxophonist Paul […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 57: Jazz Singers in the 1960s (1961 – 1969)

    Apr 20th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Barry Harris, Betty Carter, Cannonball Adderley, Carmen McRae, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eddie Jefferson, James Moody, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Jon Hendricks, Nancy Wilson, Nat Adderley, Sheila Jordan, Shirley Horn, Steve Swallow, Thelonious Monk

    Betty Carter The 1960s featured many recordings by highly musical singers in the company of great jazz instrumentalists. In this hour of Jazz at 100, we will survey the 1960’s recordings of jazz singers Betty Carter, Eddie Jefferson, Sheila Jordan, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Jon Hendricks and Johnny Hartman. Betty Carter. “What draws […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 52: Miles Davis & the First Great Quintet (Sextet) (1956 – 1959)

    Mar 9th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bill Evans, Cannonball Addreley, Gil Evans, Jimmy Cobb, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland

    Bill Evans – Paul Chambers-  Miles Davis – John Coltrane – Cannonball Adderley Miles Davis was more than a trumpet player, composer and taste-maker – he led some of the greatest bands in the history of jazz. In this hour, we will feature his first great quintet of John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 47: The Experimentalists – Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane (1956 – 1959)

    Jan 26th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins

    Charles Mingus In his book Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965, David Rosenthal outlines a group of musicians within the hard bop idiom that he identifies as “experimentalists”, describing them as “…consciously trying to expand jazz’s structural and technical boundaries: for instance, pianist Andrew Hill, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane prior to his 1965 […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 43: Monk and Friends: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, & Elmo Hope in the 1950s (1953 – 1957)

    Dec 15th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Elmo Hope, Herbie Nichols, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

    John Coltrane – Shadow Wilson -Thelonious Monk – Ahmed Abdul-Malik The 1950s were a very productive decade for Thelonious Monk, perhaps his most productive as a composer. During the fifties his reputation and impact grew tremendously. His influence on other pianists can be seen in the work of Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols, among others. Although neither had […]

  • Jazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show

    Dec 11th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Archie Shepp, Arkestra, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Free Bridge Quintet, George Gershwin, Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Mal Waldron, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, New Vision Sax Ensemble, Nina Simone, Patricia Barber, Porgy & Bess, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra

    Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess debuted in 1935 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. For some period of time, the themes of domestic violence, […]

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