Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
John Coltrane is a jazz heavyweight... but oft overlooked is the tripped out jazz of his wife, Alice Coltrane, who mixed up Eastern sounds with her jazz! Dig this!
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
I Heart Lung Interoceans [Asthmatic Kitty; 2008]----Styles: droning free jazzOthers: Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Herbie MannLinks: - I Heart Lung, the drums-and-guitar duo from Southern California, are breaking through a barrier with Interoceans, connecting to a jazz-past that their earlier recordings only hinted at. It has a meditative quality similar to some spiritually-oriented...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
His energy on Wednesday and his strong guitar playing helped make up for the fact that a lot of the songs in the set carried creaky rock clichés, comforting and authentic ’60s chord changes or grooves.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The best evidence that the Detroit International Jazz Festival has dramatically upped the quality of its programming is that aficionados had scheduling conflicts all weekend long.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
If any more evidence was needed that the Detroit International Jazz Festival has elevated its product in the last two years, the gloriously stuffed schedule of overlapping talent on Sunday was it. The laws of metaphysics made it impossible to hear it all, and no sane person would even try to ingest as much as I did. Of course, jazz critics have never been known for their mental stability.
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
When compiling a list of the most essential jazz albums, the same, basic titles from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other legends usually top the list. While these are, indeed, the most accessible recordings and masterpieces of the genre, they are also the most known, making it difficult to expand your [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Jesus fuggin' wept! It's happened! What's happened? Universal Music have goin' on about this new site for ages... and now it's here and happenin'. It's called www.losttunes.com and it's the home to some of the rarest music ever cut! Basically,...
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Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
CARNAVALITO TUPAC AMARU Gato Barbieri Fenix Flying Dutchman: 1971 GB, tenor sax, flute; Lonnie Liston Smith, keyboards; Joe Beck, guitar; Ron Carter, bass; Nana Vasconcelos, percussion, conga, berimbau; Lenny White III, drums. While Gato Barbieri’s Fenix is a fine example of rhythmic free jazz, we’ve mostly been spinning this platter because its best tracks have a lazy, sticky, summer vibe. These tunes...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Bursting out of the eclectic Ann Arbor music scene, University of Michigan graduates Nomo seamlessly fuse Afro-Caribbean beats, free jazz and electronic dance music into a gloriously chaotic big-band party. They've shared stages with Earth, Wind & Fire, Can and Radiohead, and their spectacular live performances have earned them a deal with the California-based Ubiquity Records.
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Catherine Tate (Donna Noble), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Bernard Chibbins (Gramps), Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble), Chippo Chung (Fortune Teller), Joseph Long (Rocco Colasanto), Noma Dumzwemi (Captain Magambo), Suzann McLean (Veena Brady), Marcia Lecky (Mooky Kahari), Natalie Walter (Alice Coltrane), Bhaskar Patel (Jival Chowdry), Loraine Velez (Spanish Maid), Clive...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
The saxophonist Ravi Coltrane began the tribute concert he had organized to his late mother, the pianist Alice Coltrane, on Tuesday night, with a touching testimonial describing her lifelong quest for……Read more
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Hymns and Blues in the Name of Family Ravi Coltrane at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. One of the revelations of "A Tribute to Alice Coltrane," the JVC Jazz Festival concert on Tuesday night at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, was a short film clip of Ms. Coltrane playing piano in Paris in 1959. She was smiling, running through fast bebop with the drummer Kenny Clarke and the saxophonist...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
“A Tribute to Alice Coltrane,” the JVC Jazz Festival concert on Tuesday, elegantly condensed her family, her interests and some of her better music into two hours.
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
in 96 when i was 16 jungle was dead hip-hop had lost a lot of its appeal and although i had mates who had been listening to stations like london underground and freek for a while i wasn't really that into it at the time and i was looking for something to fill the gap and i was flicking through the...
