Following last year’s surprise, Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album, Impulse! has unearthed some more previously unreleased John Coltrane material, which they’ll be dropping September 27th as a new album entitled Blue World. The audio stems from a June 1964 session which took place at Van Gelder Studios, in between the recording of Crescent and A Love Supreme, with … [Read more...]
John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Louis Amstrong and Dave Brubeck on PBS’s Blank on Blank (Videos)
A new Blank on Blank animated short featuring John Coltrane has been making the rounds recently. Blank on Blank is a production of Quoted Studios, a nonprofit content studio based in Brooklyn. Their mission is simple: “preserve and re-imagine the American interview”. To accomplish this endeavor, the studio has teamed up with PBS to produce short animated features which bring to … [Read more...]
A Message In Our Music Part 1: Jason Moran
After digesting the phenomenon which is Jason Moran, his eminence in music is even more mind-blowing once you consider the fact that he is just 37 years old. In addition to receiving just about every award, acknowledgement and accolade within the jazz spectrum, he is also recipient of the 2010 MacArthur fellowship, and has just recently filled the imperial shoes of the late … [Read more...]