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Exploring the lasting, sometimes limiting influence of saxophonist John Coltrane
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BOOK REVIEW
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
By Ben Ratliff
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 250 pp., $24
The history of jazz, Miles Davis once said, could be stated in
just four words, "Louis Armstrong" and "Charlie Parker." Were Miles
alive today and (something no less unlikely) gracious enough to
credit a onetime sideman, he would need to increase his word count
by 50 percent. What Armstrong was to the founding of jazz and the
Swing Era, and Parker to the bebop revolution...
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Exploring the lasting, sometimes limiting influence of saxophonist John Coltrane
The Boston Globe
; BOOK REVIEW Coltrane: The Story of a Sound By Ben Ratliff Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 250 pp., $24 The history of jazz, Miles Davis once said, could be stated in just four words, "Louis Armstrong" and "Charlie Parker." Were Miles alive today and (something no less unlikely) gracious enough to credit
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Coltrane BOOKS & IDEAS
International Herald Tribune
; Pankaj Mishra The New York Times Media Group International Herald Tribune 10-27-2007 Coltrane BOOKS & IDEAS Byline: Pankaj Mishra The New York Times Media Group Edition: 1 Section: FEATURES Coltrane The Story of a Sound By Ben Ratliff 250 pages. $24. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reviewed by
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Still Chasin' The Trane.(Entertainment; Music)(John Coltrane)
Newsweek
; ... nor a worshiper, Ratliff steers you between those extremes. He never tries to guilt-trip you into liking Coltrane, but instead maps the territory so that you find a way into the music that, on first, second or even third listen, often sounds forbiddingly, titanically ...
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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Coltrane.(Concert review)
Daily Variety
; (Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York; 1,094 seats; $127 top) Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Band: Wynton Marsalis, Sean Jones, Geoff Kisor, Marcus Printup. Chris Crenshaw, Vincent R. Gardner, Sherman Irby, Erica vonKleist, Walter Blanding, Victor Goines, Joe Temperley, Dan Nimmer,
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NOTES AND TONES Coltrane's giant shadow still covers the landscape of jazz
Columbia Daily Tribune
; While I espouse that some of the key ingredients and essential beauties of jazz are its constant "re-invention" and self- monitoring, there are times when noting its history is paramount. While essential ingredients of jazz throughout that history continues to be improvisation and moving the music
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Son of a jazz giant, Ravi Coltrane finds his own place
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; Ravi Coltrane knows you're curious. He knows you're going to wonder if he sounds anything like his dad, jazz legend John Coltrane. "Obviously, it's easy to understand," Coltrane said during an interview from Paris, where he is on a tour that will bring him to the Gretna Playhouse on Saturday. "You
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Younger audience gets hip to Coltrane's legacy.(News)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: BOB YOUNG This week's 30th annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert events honor a musician whose hard-core fans consider him jazz's greatest gift to the world. Now that legion is being beefed up by the digital generation. I do see members of the younger generation connecting with Coltrane and
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CDs keep music vital after 20 years // Coltrane's jazz legacy
Chicago Sun-Times
; `It was 20 years ago today . . . " Back in June, Beatles fans were invoking that line in celebration of the release on Compact Disc of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - exactly 20 years after the release of the LP. Two days ago, it was the jazz world's turn to mark a more somber 20-year
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Monk-Coltrane sessions a piece of jazz history
Oakland Tribune
; 'THELONIOUS Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" was the most widely acclaimed jazz disc released last year. Most recently, this live recording of a 1957 concert -- which, amazingly, sat undiscovered in an unmarked box in the Library of Congress for nearly 50 years -- won album of the
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Spiritual Coltrane
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; Spiritual Coltrane -- Pianist Alice, jazz great's widow, returns to stage By ELZY KOLB, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD Date: 10-20-2006, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions WHO: Alice Coltrane Quartet, plus special guests. WHAT: Jazz and world music. WHEN: 5 p.m. Sunday. WHERE: New Jersey Performing
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