How to Listen to Your Old Music While Self-Isolating
There are various ways you can mine the bounty of your exquisite taste to while away an hour or two during this stressful time of coronavirus. But you’ve got to do it with some intentionality.
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The 20 Best Album Re-Issues of 2019
In 2019, the music world saw amazing reissues spanning rock legends to foundational electronic artists, soul and jazz to pop of all stripes.
Jazz Organ Master Joey DeFrancesco Collaborates with Pharoah Sanders with ‘In the Key of the Universe’
PopMatters interviews the Hammond B3 organ master Joey DeFrancesco, who collaborates with tenor giant Pharoah Sanders for a session of spiritual playing.
Sheets of Sound: John Coltrane’s Breakthrough Year Is Lovingly Compiled in a Stellar New Boxed Set
With Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings, 37 tracks from one of the most important phases of the late jazz great's career are presented in a gorgeous new deluxe package.
Latest Miles Davis/John Coltrane Box Set Reveals the Marvel of the Final Tour
The musical conflict and explorations of these jazz legends made for a stunning series of concerts that remain sharp nearly 60 years later.
Ravi Coltrane and SFJazz Honor John Coltrane with A Love Supreme
Considering that Coltrane only played the classic composition in its entirety a single time (at a 1965 show in France), it’s a work of art that remains ripe for further interpretation.
Monk and Coltrane Return to Vinyl: A Conversation with Producer Nick Phillips
The classic 1957 studio encounters between a mature Thelonious Monk and an up-and-coming John Coltrane are now remastered for high-quality vinyl. The music deserves it.
Finding the Sublime in Jazz, an Argument for Abstraction
Jazz columnist Will Layman presents seven pieces of music as evidence of the beauty and urgency of pure sound in instrumental jazz.
John Coltrane Quartet featuring Eric Dolphy: So Many Things: The European Tour 1961
The four discs on So Many Things find the band looking for some sweet spot between a groove the audience can latch onto and the experimentalism that shaped the early '60s period of Coltrane's career.
John Coltrane: Offering: Live at Temple University
This set, performed just nine months before Coltrane's death, shows both the impressive openness of his late-era band and the limitations of its sound.
Jazz May Be Reeling in Terms of Record Sales, But It’s Thriving As an Art Form
What if today’s jazz is a little bit Bill Frisell and a little bit Ornette Coleman?
Various Artists: The Best of Blue Note
Here's another one of those groovy, swingin', melodic and enjoyable exercises in futility.