'Kind of Blue' at 50

'Kind of Blue' panel gets kind of cool

"...Avakian, who signed Davis to Columbia Records in 1955: John Coltrane wouldn't stop playing. "'Why do you keep blowing..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Dan Oko

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...Dave BrubeckLive in '64 & '66 (Naxos) John ColtraneLive in '60, '61 & '65 (Naxos) Duke EllingtonLive..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...succession for weeks on end. On the Davis record John Coltrane seemed to be playing a chart of my..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Slouching Towards Gomorrah

At the Intersection of Jazz and Lounge

"...into jazz structures. Recently, it's been Kenny G and John Tesh spearheading a neo-classical return to serious jazz. No,..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...the Cool (1949-50), the amazing quintet and sextet with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Bill Evans (mid-late Fifties), his..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Jazz Sides

"...percussionist/drummers Wally Ingram and Lukas Ligeti. Guests include organist John Medeski, keyboardist Paul Plimley, and guitarist Elliott Sharp, along..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature

Music Critics Poll: Desert Island

"...Song: "Blue Train," John Coltrane..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Branford Marsalis Quartet

Gift guide

"...Branford Marsalis QuartetColtrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam (Marsalis Music)..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Your Name Here

Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...for the fading color tattoos, most tellingly the words "John Coltrane" across his wrists. The 53-year-old doesn't skate as..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Soul Men

Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac play a couple of washed-up and forgotten R&B backup singers, who are on an improbable road back to fame.

"...in “historical” newsreel footage, by real-life top-selling soul singer John Legend). Then Hooks left to start a solo career,..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters at 3AM

'Practice,' in the modern sense, means to work at something persistently, trying to get it right – which also fits my meaning, my practice: the hour or so a day when I read my 'devotionals' (a Catholic usage), then to go to my altar to meditate and pray

"...of the Hasidim, Dorothy Day's Meditations, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, John Dominic Crossan's rendition of Jesus' sayings, poetry by Hafiz,..."

July 8, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas Platters

The Rev. Horton Heat

"...country-flavored originals are covers of tunes made famous by Johnny Bond, Artie Shaw, and Louis Jordan, among others. Other..."

May 28, 1999 Music Review

Fire Music

It’s definitely not trad, dad, in this history of free jazz

"...Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, and given respectability by John Coltrane (no one could claim that Trane couldn’t play)...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges

"...More than anyone else, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70) epitomized the soulful elegance of the Duke..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' and the Remaking of Modern Music

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and everything after

"...the ripples outward starting with the album's other principals, John Coltrane and Bill Evans. From there he examines such..."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Ballroom Dancing

SXSW panels

"...influence of poet William Carlos Williams and the great John Coltrane. "When John Coltrane left this earth, I stopped..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Letters at 3AM

A Little Late, For Bix

"...his soul into yours. Geniuses like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane would do the same. Beiderbecke's strategy is fundamentally..."

May 16, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Charles Lloyd

Record Review

"...(ECM) As one of the last direct descendants of John Coltrane and his musical quest for spiritual enlightenment, saxophonist..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Jazz: By the Episode

"...central figure. He forms great bands including one with John Coltrane, and explores various styles...."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Desert Island Discs

"...10. John Coltrane, Giant Steps (Atlantic)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Miles and Miles of Miles

The Columbia Legacy

"...the band that was up to the task. In John Coltrane, he found an endlessly inventive soloist, while Cannonball..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...Greenwich Village staple. The trumpeter hadn't yet banished saxophonist John Coltrane and all-time drummer Philly Joe Jones from his..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 22-24

Not too many, right? Just enough. Just enough for the city.

"...talking about here is a ’Trane wife: Turiya Alice Coltrane, to be precise: the second wife of legendary saxman..."

Sept. 21, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chargaux at the 2017 Austin Chamber Music Festival

This dynamic Brooklyn-based string duo proves that the Austin Chamber Music Festival has many more colors than its name suggests

"...have: the Turtle Island Quartet playing a tribute to John Coltrane, Raúl Jaurena & the Texas Tango Five playing..."

July 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bare Necessities

Tenor titan Sonny Rollins still peeling bark

"...Tatum through Ornette Coleman, records protean blowers Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins, but only the latter's full-force..."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hommage á Nesuhi

Atlantic Jazz 60th Anniversary Collection

"...standardization of the 12-inch LP and producing all of John Coltrane's and Ornette Coleman's defining work on the label..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

Impulse Records was the one jazz label that best reflected the social, political, and cultural turbulence of the 1960s as well as the spiritual awareness of the era

"...for jazz aesthetic excellence. A roster that included saxophonists John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, and Pharoah Sanders, made..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Miles Davis

Gift guide

"...the mid-Fifties and his highly influential post-bop work with John Coltrane, Red Garland, and Philly Joe Jones, and late..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Derek Trucks Band Reviewed

"...when he turned heads by covering Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Trucks has all but shattered the narrowcasting of..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

McCoy Tyner

Live Shot

"...in," smiled the pianist), blazing through his former boss John Coltrane's classic "Moments Notice," or rendering a solo, contemplative..."

March 28, 2003 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

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