The amazing John Coltrane, born 100 years ago today in Hamlet, NC.
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@adaspota.bsky.socialThe amazing John Coltrane, born 100 years ago today in Hamlet, NC.
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“Naima”, from Giant Steps, 1959
John Coltrane, tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly, piano
Paul Chambers, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums
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Remembering John Coltrane On His Centennial Birthday
@brucehodges.bsky.socialAh, why pick and choose, just look at the whole thread
@dean.bsky.socialJohn Coltrane performs live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, October 27, 1963
📷 Gijsbert Hanekroot
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@dean.bsky.socialFor the John Coltrane Centennial
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John Edward Dowell
Coltrane Sonnet from Visual Poems
1971
Museum of Modern Art
@dean.bsky.socialJohn Coltrane by Esmond Edwards, 1957
Used on the cover of Coltrane / Prestige 7105
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"Coltrane had this kind of direct openness of his face that lent itself to a certain kind of expression. You get the impression that he is a dedicated, devoted kind of person, which he was."
- EE
@dean.bsky.socialI love the Felix Sockwell illustration on the cover of the CD reissue of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, from 1957
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Ahmed Abdul-Malik, bass
Shadow Wilson, drums
@dean.bsky.socialI love this William Claxton photo of John Coltrane at the Guggenheim Museum, 1960
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The painting is by Pierre Soulages.
@dean.bsky.socialBen Webster & John Coltrane by Roy DeCarava, 1960
Geoff Dyer wrote a wonderful essay about this photograph:
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/m...
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"Coltrane would never get to be as old as Webster was in this picture."
@dean.bsky.socialPatti Smith hugs John Coltrane's A Love Supreme close to her heart, as all true jazz lovers do.
📷 Danny Clinch, New York, 2000
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This was taken in Michael Carlucci’s Subterranean Records, Cornelia Street
@dean.bsky.socialJohn Coltrane by Burt Goldblatt, 1960s
"That precise tension - rhapsodic devotion versus a kind of measured elegance - is present, in one form or another, in nearly every great work of American art."
- Amanda Petrusich
@dean.bsky.socialJohn Coltrane recording Giant Steps
📷 Lee Friedlander, 1959
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"There are times here when Coltrane is remarkably soft, lyrical, and just plain pretty. You can tag this LP as one of the important ones."
- Ralph J. Gleason, from his original Down Beat review
@dean.bsky.socialTed Williams' picture of John Coltrane’s saxophone & Miles Davis’ trumpet on Sarah Vaughan's dressing table, Chicago, 1958
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@dean.bsky.socialJohn Coltrane by Chuck Stewart, 1966
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"Even at his most expressive he was a student, earnest, self-possessed, apparently uninterested in the shocking-diversion aspect of modernity."
- Ben Ratliff
@dean.bsky.socialCelebrate the John Coltrane Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Lee Friedlander, 1960
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"John was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality."
- Albert Ayler
@byleaveswelive.bsky.socialThe monthly Scottish Poetry Library newsletter will be delivered to Inboxes this afternoon. There's still time to sign up to get the September edition.
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Today is the centenary of a certain legend so there's a jazzy feel to this one. #Trane100
