Ascension of an Icon

Marketing John Coltrane

"...poster which presents nothing but the determined face of John Coltrane. Thirty years after his untimely passing, how does..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

History of the avant-garde jazz pioneers is surprisingly lacking in innovation

"...they had good taste: Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, and John Coltrane are just a few names. As the label..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ginger & Rosa

The personal becomes political in Sally Potter's story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.

"...real feeling into the part, while the jazz soundtrack (John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sidney Bechet) rouses this sensitive film..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

You Can Leave Your Hat On

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

"...is typically reserved for the dead or incarcerated. "Mambo" John Treanor is neither, but he is battling cancer. Chemotherapy..."

July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Playback: Chicken Shit Bingo Splits

Chicken Shit Bingo franchises, Obama music photo–ops, and Austin Music Industry Award winners, and RIP John Morthland

"...starting a competing Chicken Shit Bingo at C-Boy's Heart & Soul on South Congress. Watson confirms he's sold his..."

March 11, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...Blue Note label, Hancock wed the earthiness of funk, R&B, and gospel to bop's aridities without scanting the latter's..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...to say poseurs aren't capable of absolutely primal rock & roll (as any early Clash or Bowie record can..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

Reissues

"...BEG, SCREAM & SHOUT: THE BIG OL' BOX SET OF 60'S SOUL..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Effendi

Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner

"...his name as the 88-key man in the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, Tyner has since forged one of the..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Music Feature by David Lynch

Reissues

"...HANK MOBLEY & HIS ALL STARS..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Drum Legend Jack DeJohnette Returns to Austin

We talk to the jazz titan about Coltrane, his latest album, and more

"...Originally trained as a classical pianist, Jack DeJohnette, 74, instead became a certified jazz legend on drums...."

Feb. 3, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk Quartet, and John Coltrane

Gift guide

"...York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown)Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

John Coltrane

Reissues

"...John ColtraneA Love Supreme Deluxe Edition (Impulse!)..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Pope Must Diet

"...classic British farce along the lines of the recent John Goodman vehicle, King Ralph (only much more competently executed)...."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...a URL (www.andvinyly.com) and punch line: "Now the question – what song would it be?" Your cremated remains pressed..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Love Supreme – The Music of John Coltrane

Turtle Island Quartet's tribute to the jazz genius was fresh and thrilling

"...A Love Supreme – 
The Music of John Coltrane..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Holy Ghost

Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'

"...Charlie Feathers. Captain Beefheart. Harry Smith. Even our co-founder, John Fahey. Albert Ayler's story hits that same nerve: child..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Free as They Want to Be

"...The term "Free Jazz" refers to a strain within..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Jazz Sides

Naxos' latest Jazz Icons series has arrived

"...Art BlakeyLive in '65 (Naxos) Coleman HawkinsLive in '62 & '64 (Naxos) Woody HermanLive in '64 (Naxos) Anita O'DayLive..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

John Coltrane

"...John ColtraneSide Steps (Prestige)..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

John Coltrane

"...John ColtraneInterplay (Prestige)..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

John Coltrane

Gift Guide

"...John Coltrane..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

John Coltrane

Box Sets

"...John ColtraneLive Trane: European Tours (Pablo) If you were to..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

Jazz sides

"...like Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, and especially John Coltrane. It was Coltrane who personified the label's dedication..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...Besides Maneri, John Zorn, Mark Dresser, Chris Speed, and Joey Baron have..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...in the bands of Lou Donaldson, Kenny Dorham, J.J. Johnson, Art Farmer, and Art Blakey, and recorded with Freddie..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia)

Reissues

"...Miles Davis with John ColtraneThe Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia) Miles Davis' quintet and..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"......"

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Bomb the Bass

Who says the guitar is sexier than bass? Not Return to Forever's Stanley Clarke, and hopefully not Beyoncé either.

"...that I played with in the Joe Henderson band – the great saxophonist – and I met Chick when..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Aural History

Hannibal Lokumbe and his trumpet stand at the crossroads of jazz, blues, and Jimi Hendrix

"...of my days") in 1995, which he estimates is 8½ miles from where his great-grandfather finally settled as an..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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