News featuring John Coltrane

The following news stories mention John Coltrane. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated less than 2 hours ago.

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Thursday 16th May

  • “Ravi Coltrane lives up to his name”

    Ravi Coltrane is now 47 years old. Over the past 15 years the saxophonist and composer has released six critically acclaimed albums as a leader and made innumerable recordings as a sideman, including his work with the collective supergroup Saxophone Summit. But still, for many jazz fans, the question remains: Why would a son of John Coltrane — one of the towering figures in jazz and, it could be argued, 20th-century music in general — choose to play his father’s instrument? Isn’t that just too much baggage to carry?

    Read the complete article at feeds.boston.com

  • “LA's 1980s psychedelic explosion”

    Think of LA in the 1980s, and you think of hair metal. But elsewhere, the Bangles, the Dream Syndicate and a handful of others were reviving the 1960s and briefly becoming rock's hottest scene. Here's the story in the musicians' own words

    Some music scenes pass into legend – Memphis in 1955/56, San Francisco and London in 1966/67, New York in 1976/77. Many more, though, fade from memory – like the Paisley Underground. Back in the early 80s, Los Angeles saw a sudden spurt of young bands all influenced by the psychedelia of the late 60s, and all taking different elements of it. The result was bands that all sounded different, but all of a piece – from the intense, droning, tough Velvetsy rock of the Dream Syndicate, to the sunshiney Beatles pop of the Bangles, to the Byrds-indebted Long Ryders.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Wednesday 8th May

  • “Kevin Eubanks: The Messenger”

    Over the course of 11 tracks, Eubanks exhibits preeminent musicianship and the upmost artistry.

    Guitarist Kevin Eubanks releases his 2013 effort The Messenger via Mack Avenue. Throughout 11 solid tracks, Eubanks and cast exhibit preeminent musicianship and a restless sense of creativity. Excepting brilliantly interpreted covers from John Coltrane (“Resolution”) and Jeff Beck (“Led Boots”), Eubanks handles all compositional duties. “The Messenger” initiates capably with its Latin-infused groove and memorable head performed by sax (Bill Pierce) and guitar. The darker “Sister Veil” compels greater, featuring the lovely timbrel combination…

    Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com

  • “Cedric Brooks”

    Jamaican saxophonist and composer who played a key role in promoting spiritually oriented reggae all over the world

    The Jamaican saxophonist Cedric Brooks, who has died aged 70, was a renowned composer and musical arranger. Presiding over esoteric projects that married traditional Jamaican folk forms with freeform jazz and Rastafari consciousness, Brooks played an important role in the international dissemination of spiritually oriented reggae. His longstanding association with Studio One, one of Jamaica's leading recording studios, yielded some of the most intense reggae instrumentals ever recorded. Brooks was also a touring member of the Skatalites, Jamaica's best-known ska group.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Monday 25th March

  • “Flying Lotus Hits the Studio with Herbie Hancock”

    The jazz elements of Los Angeles beatmaker Flying Lotus's output were all over last year's excellent Until the Quiet Comes, so it should come as no surprise that the performer (and great-nephew of jazz greats Alice and John Coltrane) might be collaborating with the legendary Herbie Hancock. Yesterday (March 24), the social media savvy performer tweeted a Vine video showcasing himself in the studio with Hancock as well as frequent collaborator Thundercat. That's all we have to go on for now, though there's no question they're working on some sort of material. Back in...Read More

    Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

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Friday 1st March

  • “Steve Reich on Coltrane and Radiohead”

    Steve Reich went from running a removal business with Philip Glass to revolutionising 20th-century classical music. He talks about rock'n'roll, minimalism – and how Radiohead have inspired him

    There is something oddly reassuring about the fact that Steve Reich lives in precisely the kind of house you might expect Steve Reich to live in. The cab journey to Pound Ridge, the tiny town on the New York-Connecticut border that the composer has called home since 2006, passes a lot of rather grand homes built in various classic styles, from colonial to arts and crafts. Reich, by contrast, lives in what appears to be one of the area's few examples of modernism. Inside, the rooms are huge and white. There is beautiful mid-20th-century furniture. It is clearly the home of someone of refined taste. You could even describe it as minimalist, if you wanted to use a term that the…

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Wednesday 27th February

  • “Bobby Gillespie: 'The rock scene is a joke'”

    It's March 1990, and Primal Scream are reinventing themselves, as Bobby Gillespie tells Melody Maker in this piece trawled from Rock's Backpages, the archive of vintage music journalism

    "I still like quite a lot of the old Primal Scream songs, stuff like All Fall Down and Velocity Girl, but I don't think our first album was as good as it could have been," says Bobby Gillespie. "The main problem was that we loved the melodies so much that we were too careful and, by making sure every note was perfect, we lost the spirit of many of the songs. It would have been a much better record if it had sounded a bit rougher.

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