A Love Supreme

Author: Ashley Kahn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101126809
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family members; unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison; and scores of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme balances biography, cultural context, and musical analysis in a passionate and revealing portrait.

Beyond A Love Supreme

Author: Tony Whyton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199733236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is widely considered one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. In Beyond A Love Supreme, author Tony Whyton explores both the musical aspects of A Love Supreme, and the album's seminal importance in jazz history, as well as its broader musical and cultural impact.

The Great Fishing Contest

Author: David Kherdian
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN: 9780399222634
Category : Contests
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
After painstaking preparations with his friend Sammy, Jason enters the big fishing contest and follows a plan to discover where the biggest fish in the pond are hiding.

The John Coltrane Reference

Author: Lewis Porter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135112576
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 834

Book Description
The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last, 1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250 album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka, The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane enthusiasts.

A Supreme Love

Author: William Edgar
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514000679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
Theologian and jazz pianist William Edgar places jazz within the context of the African American experience and explores the work of musicians like Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, arguing that jazz, which moves from deep lament to inextinguishable joy, deeply resonates with the hope that is ultimately found in the good news of Jesus Christ.

LOVE SUPREME

Author: ASHLEY. KAHN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783786053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Songbook)

Author: John Coltrane
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476885885
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
(Artist Books). The All Music Guide calls John Coltrane's A Love Supreme "easily one of the most important records ever made," and Coltrane has referred to it as his "gift to God." This exceptional songbook presents exact note-for-note tenor saxophone transcriptions for every piece on this landmark album. Includes: Acknowledgement (Part I) * Resolution (Part II) * Pursuance (Part III) * Psalm (Part IV).

Conversations in Jazz

Author: Ralph J. Gleason
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022074X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in Gleason’s Berkeley, California, home, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. This remarkable volume, a must-read for any jazz fan, serious musician, or musicologist, reveals fascinating, little-known details about these gifted artists, their lives, their personas, and, of course, their music. Bill Evans discusses his battle with severe depression, while John Coltrane talks about McCoy Tyner's integral role in shaping the sound of the Coltrane quartet, praising the pianist enthusiastically. Included also are interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Jon Hendricks, and the immortal Duke Ellington, plus seven more of the most notable names in twentieth-century jazz.

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Author: Michael S. Harper
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252011931
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
A collection of rhythmic poems with such varied themes as pain, love, and the experience of jazz.

Coltrane

Author: Ben Ratliff
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998628
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs? In this deftly written, riveting study, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff answers these questions and examines the life of Coltrane, the acclaimed band leader and deeply spiritual man who changed the face of jazz music. Ratliff places jazz among other art forms and within the turbulence of American social history, and he places Coltrane not just among jazz musicians but among the greatest American artists.