John Coltrane

Music Review: John Coltrane - Side Steps

Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | yesterday

Side Steps is another great John Coltrane box-set from Prestige.

Rainy Saturday

Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | yesterday

I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table. Originally published at sararyan.com . You can comment here or there .

NYC's Village Gate club owner, Art D'Lugoff, dies

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85.

• NYC's Village Gate club owner, Art D'Lugoff, dies - kansascity.com
• NYC's Village Gate club owner, Art D'Lugoff, dies - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

R.I.P. Art D'Lugoff, Village Gate Impresario, Booked Coltrane, Hendrix, Duke Ellington...

The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday

Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...

Miles Davis: Miles and Kind of Blue

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday

Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, {{Miles Davis = 6144}} assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles Davis Quintet, represents...

Dario Pegoretti: fatto a mano!

Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The artisan... Where framebuilding equals art the cycling world can look and marvel at Dario Pegoretti. He was well schooled in the seventies learning framebuilding from none other than the great Luigino Milani. He actually continue building in the Milani shop in Verona until 1999. his art... During the nineties pro teams sought out Pegoretti for his functional frames and badged them under different...

Department of Book Reports: 1959: The Year That Changed Everything

Jesus' General (Free subscription) | yesterday

Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...

City Views Bonn – Thomas Champagne Trio and Boi Akih in Concert at Rheinisches Landesmuseum

DPRC - Documentary Photography Rudy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The jazz concerts organized by Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen, director of Jazz am Rhein e.V./EURO Jazz 21′, at Rheinisches Landesmuseum will certainly not help to make the promoter a rich man. On Thursday, November 5, only a handful of people came to the concert-hall at Colmantstrasse to attend the double concerto by Thomas Champagne Trio (B) and Boi Akih (NL), an [...]

Music Review: Komeda Project - Requiem

Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Komeda Project freshens up the music of the legendary Polish composer for new ears.

EDUCATION: Northeastern University Reflects on Legacy of John and Alice Coltrane on November 13

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Northeastern University presents a discussion entitled The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound, on Friday, November 13. It takes place from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, 40 Leon Street on campus. The event is free and open to the public.The e...

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Listen to the Bass Player: Part 4, Paul Chambers

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb on "So What." Like Heath and LaFaro in their various ways, where Chambers puts "one" is a place where no one who's playing with...

• Listen To The Bass Player: Part 4, Paul Chambers - Rifftides

Saturday 11.14.09: Echo and Stories Books & Café present AMIRI BARAKA / NYLAEE @ echo

the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

[ November 14, 2009; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences [...]

EVENT: Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes and Noble (NYC) on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 P.M.

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes and Noble (NYC) on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, October 30th, for an in-store Barnes and Noble interview with saxophonist, epic composer and jazz legend, Benny Golson Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028...

Mumia maverick

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

Tigre Hill has only released the trailer to his film, The Barrel of a Gun, but already Mumia Inc. has begun mobilizing against him.

DVD/VIDEO: STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Stanley Jordan

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

This week, our video spotlilght shines on guitarist Stanley Jordan, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Wednesday, November 4 through Saturday, November 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. Jordan is known for his two-handed tapping technique, which he developed as a teenager in the 1970s and is used to pr...

• StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Stanley Jordan - St. Louis Jazz Notes