Saturday, September 1, 2018

John Coltrane






















Artist:  John Coltrane
Birth Name:   John William Coltrane
Born:  September 23, 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA.
Died:  July 17, 1967 (Aged 40),  Huntington, New York, USA.
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone.

John Coltrane was an American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer.  He played in style of Bebop and Hard Bop and helped pioneer the use of the modes in Jazz and was later at the forefront of Free Jazz.  He also appeared as a sideman on many album by other musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.  His best known and best-selling albums Blue Train i 1958 and A Love Supreme in 1964.














Artist:  The John Coltrane Quartet
Title:  Both Directions At Once:  The Lost Album  (2018)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Label:  Impulse!
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Untitled Original 11383 (Take 1)  (5:41)
 2.  Nature Boy  (3:23)
 3.  Untitled Original 11386 (Take 1)  (8:38)
 4.  Vilia (Take 3)  (5:32)
 5.  Impressions (Take 3)  (4:31)
 6.  Slow Blues  (11:26)
 7.  One Up, One Down (Take 1)  (7:58)

Personnel:

John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Jimmy Garrison:  Double Bass
Elvin Jones:  Drums
McCoy Tyner:  Piano

Both Directions At Once:  The Lost Album is a studio album recored on March 6, 1963 by John Coltrane, released on June 29, 2018 by Impulse!, featuring Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and McCoy Tyner.

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