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Sponsored by Vinyl Me, Please. Reset your password Click the eye to show your password. Membership has its privileges. John Coltrane: His Life and Music more. None of them, including Porter's, give you much insight into his personality. If you are looking for a light read, skip this book. There is comparatively little about his private life, and some of that is speculative. The emphasis is entirely on the music, and I would suggest that you don't even pick up this book unless you are a musician with considerable understanding of harmony and the ability the read musical notation. But if you are a musician, particularly a jazz musician, hasten to your bookstore and get it, John Coltrane: His Life and Music prepare to spend not days, not weeks, but months studying it. John Coltrane: His Life and Music is the finest musical analysis of a jazz musician's art I have ever read. It is brilliantly done. In addition to being a responsible scholar, Dr. Porter is associate professor of music at Rutgers University, he is a jazz musician. He is a pianist and for fifteen years he was a working saxophonist. This shows in every detail of his discussion of the work of a man who was a great saxophonist, in some opinions the greatest of his generation. I can't say that I knew Coltrane well because I'm not sure it was possible to know him well. We certainly were on cordial terms, and he would now and then come to my home in Chicago for dinner during the years I was editor of Down Beat magazine. I remember him as everyone Porter interviewed remembers him: gentle, articulate when he chose to speak but usually very quiet, and astonishingly modest. It has always baffled me that the most mediocre musical talents often John Coltrane: His Life and Music the biggest egos. But those of brilliant ability are inclined to be unprepossessing. Perhaps it is because they are always pushing to the outer periphery of John Coltrane: His Life and Music abilities, and the art itself makes them modest. John certainly was that way, and Porter quotes him a number of times as asserting that he was searching and had not really found what he sought, musically or philosophically. He hadn't heard that piece before, although he was very familiar with Stravinsky's music as most jazz musicians are. He listened in complete absorption while my son, then about three, crawled up on his lap and made himself comfortable. That is how I remember him: completely open to a little child, and gentle. Frankly, I somewhat adored John. He was a lovely person. That he was a former heroin addict is widely known. He broke the habit on his own, and early, though he began using and this I did not know LSD in the later years, possibly in search of that mystical experience he was seeking through music. John's music was essentially a religious search, and he was fascinated, as Porter documents, by all the religions John Coltrane: His Life and Music the world. He was by the same John Coltrane: His Life and Music interested in every kind of music he encountered. He named one of his children Ravi himself an outstanding and underrecognized avant-garde saxophonist after the great sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, one of John's friends. Coltrane emerged as a major jazz figure in the late s. Born in North Carolina, he developed as a musician in Philadelphia in company with another important saxophonist, Benny Golson, his lifelong friend. It was his membership with the Miles Davis group that pulled people's coats, to use an old jazz musician's phrase, to his emerging brilliance. John was said to play with a hard tone, and some referred to his playing as angry. This puzzled him. He said to me, "Why do John Coltrane: His Life and Music say my John Coltrane: His Life and Music is angry? I'm not angry at anything. Porter's book. I thought John had an exceptionally pretty sound. I attended one of his record sessions entirely devoted to ballads; indeed I was there because John wanted me to write the liner notes for it, which I did. I remember that session and the album documents my impression for enthrallingly tender playing. It will stay with me all my life. He also did an album with the late singer Johnny Hartman in which this aspect of his work is again evident. But he could play with incredible fire. He was, at least in his early years, deeply interested in arpeggiated chords, and would give an impression of piling one chord on top of another although that obviously is technically impossible on the saxophone with such rapidity that writer Ira Gitler called it "sheets of sound," a term that has stuck ever since. He also played at enormous length, his solos lasting fifteen minutes or more. This used to annoy Miles Davis, leading to a rather famous exchange: he told Miles that he'd sometimes get into a solo and wouldn't know how to get out of it. Miles reportedly replied, "Try taking the horn out of your mouth. He began to eschew the steady beat of jazz for a freer approach, and it lost him some of his audience " and indeed some of his musicians. The magnificent and influential pianist McCoy Tyner left at the end of and then great Elvin Jones, his drummer for many years, left inboth of them using the same phrase about the group in interviews, calling the group "a lot of noise. There is nothing to compare to this John Coltrane: His Life and Music of riches today, and many of its best- known younger practitioners are playing what some have called retrojazz, mining the past. It may be that there is nothing left to do. It is ten years short of a century since Arnold Schoenberg began writing music that avoided tonal centers; musicians may find it interesting, but the public has retained an unshakable indifference to it. Apparently there is so only so far the collective public ear will follow the musician away from tonality. Serious music of all kinds is in trouble. Classical radio stations in the United States are turning into a kind of high-class music, designed to soothe the nerves of those who grew up on rock and know nothing else. There are fewer and fewer radio stations that play jazz in North America. In Los Angeles there isn't one; in the mid- s, there were forty such stations in that city. Major book John Coltrane: His Life and Music have no interest in jazz or for that matter even classic popular song. University libraries, including that at Yale, are taking up the slack. Porter's book is published by the University of Michigan Press. We have not seen their like again, and we're not likely to. Though skillful jazz players will continue to emerge and struggle to make a living, there is a growing uneasy feeling in jazz circles that this music is at the end of its rich creative run: approximately 70 percent of CDs sold are reissues of music recorded decades ago. If it is over, Coltrane must be viewed historically as one of its last great innovators. And Dr. Porter's book is a superb analysis of what made him so. It belongs in every music school, and certainly every jazz musician should read "no, study! Showcase Buy Now. Buy Now. Premium Kit Eakle violin. Shop Amazon. By Nicholas F. Mondello Jazz: A Love Letter. By Mark Sullivan Bix. All About Jazz needs your John Coltrane: His Life and Music Donate. Get more of a good thing Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes your local jazz events calendar. Sign in Sign up Email address. Password Reset your password Click the eye to show your password. 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Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by John Coltrane: His Life and Music musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. He remains one of the most influential saxophonists in music history. He received numerous posthumous awards, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church and a Pulitzer Prize in The couple had three children: John Jr. Coltrane [7] and his mother was Alice Blair. Beginning in Decemberhis father, aunt, and grandparents died within a few months of each other, leaving him to be raised by his mother and a close cousin. In September, John Coltrane: His Life and Music mother bought him his first saxophone, an alto. From early to mid he had his first professional work: a "cocktail lounge trio" with piano and guitar. To avoid being drafted John Coltrane: His Life and Music the Army, Coltrane enlisted in the Navy on August 6,the day the first U. Coltrane's musical talent was recognized, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musician's rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. By the end of his service, he had assumed a leadership role in the band. His first recordings, an informal session in Hawaii with Navy musicians, occurred on July 13, After being discharged from the Navy as a seaman first class in AugustColtrane returned to Philadelphia, where he "plunged into the heady excitement of the new music and the blossoming bebop scene. Although he started on alto saxophone, he began playing tenor saxophone in with Eddie Vinson. Coltrane called this a time when "a wider area of listening opened up for me. There were many things that people like Hawk [Coleman Hawkins]and Ben [Webster] and Tab Smith were doing in the '40s that I didn't understand, but that I felt emotionally. Hasaan was the great influence on Trane's melodic concept. Heath recalls an incident in a hotel in San Francisco when after a complaint was issued, Coltrane took the horn out of his mouth and practiced fingering for a full hour. An important moment in the progression of Coltrane's musical John Coltrane: His Life and Music occurred on June 5,when he saw Charlie Parker perform for the first time. In a DownBeat magazine article in he recalled, "the first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes. InColtrane was freelancing in Philadelphia while studying with guitarist Dennis Sandole when he received a call John Coltrane: His Life and Music trumpeter Miles Davis. Davis had been successful in the 40s, but his reputation and work had been damaged in part by heroin addiction; he was again active and about to form a quintet. During this period Davis released several influential recordings that revealed the first signs of Coltrane's growing ability. This quintet, represented by two marathon recording sessions for Prestige inresulted in the albums Cookin'Relaxin'Workin'and Steamin'. The "First Great Quintet" disbanded due in part to Coltrane's John Coltrane: His Life and Music addiction. Coltrane recorded many albums for Prestige under his own name at this time, but Monk refused to record for his old label. A high quality tape of a concert given by this quartet in November was also found later, and was released by Blue Note in Recorded by Voice of Americathe performances confirm the group's reputation, and the resulting album, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hallis widely acclaimed. Blue TrainColtrane's sole date as leader for Blue Note, featuring trumpeter Lee Morganbassist Paul Chambersand trombonist Curtis Fulleris often considered his best album from this period. Four of its five tracks are original Coltrane compositions, and the title track, " Moment's Notice John Coltrane: His Life and Music, and " Lazy Bird ", have become standards. Both tunes employed the first examples of his chord substitution cycles known as Coltrane changes. Coltrane rejoined Davis in January In October of that year, jazz critic Ira Gitler coined the term " sheets of sound " [26] to describe the style Coltrane developed with Monk and was perfecting in Davis's group, now a sextet. His playing was compressed, with rapid runs cascading in hundreds of notes per minute. Coltrane recalled: "I found that there were a certain number of chord progressions to play in a given time, and sometimes what I played didn't work out in eighth notes, sixteenth notes, or triplets. I had to put the notes in uneven groups like fives and sevens in order to get them all in. At the end of this period Coltrane recorded Giant Stepshis first album as leader for Atlantic which contained only his compositions. Coltrane formed his first quartet for live performances in for an appearance at the Jazz Gallery in New York City. In MayColtrane's contract with Atlantic was bought by Impulse! He recorded most of his albums for Impulse! By earlybassist Davis had been replaced by Reggie Workmanwhile Eric Dolphy joined the group as a second horn. The quintet had a celebrated John Coltrane: His Life and Music extensively recorded residency at the Village Vanguardwhich demonstrated Coltrane's new direction. It included the most experimental music he had played, influenced by Indian ragas John Coltrane: His Life and Music, modal jazzand free jazz. John Gilmorea longtime saxophonist with musician Sun Rawas particularly influential; after hearing a Gilmore performance, Coltrane is reported to have said, "He's got it! Gilmore's got the concept! Garrett recalled playing a tape for Coltrane where " I was playing with another bass player. We were doing some things rhythmically, and Coltrane became excited about the sound. We got the same kind of sound you get from the East Indian water drum. One bass remains in the lower register and is the stabilizing, pulsating thing, while the other bass is free to improvise, like the right hand would be on the drum. So Coltrane liked the idea. We were playing a lot of stuff with a sort of suspended rhythm, with one bass playing a series of notes around one point, and it seemed that another bass could fill in the spaces John and I got off the stand and listened During this period, critics were divided in their estimation of Coltrane, who had radically altered his style. Audiences, too, were perplexed; in France he was booed during his final tour with Davis. InDown Beat magazine called Coltrane and Dolphy players of "anti-jazz" in an article that bewildered and upset the musicians. Furthermore, Dolphy's angular, voice-like playing earned him a reputation as a figurehead of the "New Thing", also known as free jazz, a John Coltrane: His Life and Music led by Ornette Coleman which was denigrated by some jazz musicians including Davis and critics. But as Coltrane's style developed, he was determined to make every performance "a whole expression of one's being". InDolphy departed and Jimmy Garrison replaced Workman as bassist. From then on, the "Classic Quartet", as it came to be known, with Tyner, Garrison, and Jones, produced searching, spiritually driven work. Coltrane was moving toward a more harmonically static style that allowed him to expand his improvisations rhythmically, melodically, and motivically. Harmonically complex music was still present, but on stage Coltrane heavily favored continually reworking his "standards": "Impressions", "My Favorite Things", and "I Want to Talk About You". The criticism of the quintet with Dolphy may have affected Coltrane. In contrast to the radicalism of his recordings at the Village Vanguard, his studio albums in the following two years with the exception of Coltrane, which featured a blistering version of Harold Arlen 's "Out of This World" were much more conservative. He recorded an album of ballads John Coltrane: His Life and Music participated in album collaborations with Duke Ellington and singer Johnny Hartmana baritone who specialized in ballads. The album Ballads recorded —62 is emblematic of Coltrane's versatility, as the quartet shed new light on old-fashioned standards such as "It's Easy to Remember". Despite a more polished approach in the studio, in concert the quartet continued to balance "standards" and its John Coltrane: His Life and Music more exploratory and challenging music, as can be heard on the Impressions recorded —63Live at Birdland and Newport '63 John Coltrane: His Life and Music recorded Impressions consists of two extended jams including the title track along with "Dear Old Stockholm", "After the Rain" and a blues. Coltrane later said he enjoyed having a "balanced catalogue. On March 6,the group entered Van Gelder Studio John Coltrane: His Life and Music New Jersey and recorded a session that was lost for decades after its master tape was destroyed by Impulse Records to cut down on storage space. On June 29,Impulse! A culmination of much of Coltrane's work up to this point, this four-part suite is an ode to his faith in and love for God. These spiritual concerns characterized much of Coltrane's composing and playing from this point onwards—as can be seen from album titles such as AscensionOm and Meditations. The fourth movement of A Love Supreme"Psalm", is, in fact, a musical setting for an original poem to God written by Coltrane, and printed in the album's liner notes. Coltrane plays almost exactly one note for each syllable of the poem, and bases his phrasing on the words. He was especially influenced by the dissonance of Ayler's trio with bassist Gary Peacock[55] who had worked with Paul Bleyand drummer Sunny Murraywhose playing was honed with Cecil Taylor as leader. Coltrane championed many young free jazz musicians such as Archie Shepp[56] and under his influence Impulse! A series of recordings with the Classic Quartet in the first half of show Coltrane's playing becoming abstract, with greater incorporation of devices like multiphonicsuse of overtones, and playing in the altissimo register, as well as a mutated return of Coltrane's sheets of sound. In the studio, he all but abandoned soprano saxophone to concentrate on tenor. The quartet responded by playing with increasing freedom. In Junehe went into Van Gelder's studio with ten other musicians including Shepp, [57] Pharoah Sanders[57] Freddie Hubbard[57] Marion Brownand John Tchicai [57] to record Ascensiona minute piece that included solos by young avant-garde musicians. After recording with the quartet over the next few months, Coltrane invited Sanders to join the band in September While Coltrane frequently used overblowing as an emotional exclamation-point, Sanders "was involved in the search for 'human' sounds on his instrument," [58] employing "a tone which blasted like a blow torch" [59] and drastically expanding the vocabulary of his horn by employing multiphonicsgrowlingand "high register squeals [that] could imitate not only the human song but the human John Coltrane: His Life and Music and shriek as well. By lateColtrane was regularly augmenting his group with Sanders and other free jazz musicians. Rashied Ali joined the group as a second drummer. This was the end of the quartet. Claiming he was unable to hear himself over the two drummers, Tyner left the band shortly after the recording of Meditations. Jones left in earlydissatisfied by sharing drumming duties with Ali. After Coltrane's death, Tyner and Jones in interviews expressed displeasure with the music's direction, while incorporating some of the free-jazz form's intensity in their solo work. There is speculation that in Coltrane began using LSD[62] [63] informing the "cosmic" transcendence of his late period. After the departure of Tyner and Jones, Coltrane led a quintet with Sanders on tenor saxophone, his second wife Alice Coltrane on piano, Garrison on bass, and Ali on drums. Coltrane and Sanders were described by Nat Hentoff as " speaking in tongues ". When touring, the group was known for playing long versions of their repertoire, many stretching beyond 30 minutes to an hour. In concert, solos by band members often extended beyond fifteen minutes. The group can be heard on several concert recordings fromincluding Live at the Village Vanguard Again! InJohn Coltrane: His Life and Music entered the studio several times. 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