Genres: Avant-Garde, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Free Jazz, Modal Music, Avant-Garde Jazz Active: 50's, 60's Born: September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, NC
Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Don Byas, Yusef Lateef, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Dennis Sandole, Carl Hancock Rux Pharoah Sanders, George Coleman, Booker Ervin, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, David Murray, Hank Mobley, Harold Land, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Billy Harper, John Gilmore, George Adams, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Griffin, Ike Quebec, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Herbie Nichols Saxophone Summit, Steve Grossman, Zbigniew Namyslowski, George Coleman, Ronnie Cuber, Stan West, Booker Ervin, Dale Fielder, Ron Holloway, Grant Green, Barry Finnerty, Slide Hampton, Joe Henderson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wayne Shorter, Television, Ray Pizzi, Cannonball Adderley, Santana |  |
Despite a relatively brief career (he first came to notice as a sideman at age 29 in 1955, formally launched a solo career at 33 in 1960, and was dead at 40 in 1967), saxophonist John Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz. It seems amazing that his period of greatest activity was so short, not only because he recorded prolifically, but also because, taking advantage of his fame, the record companies that recorded him as a sideman in the 1950s frequently reissued those recordings under his name and there has been a wealth of posthumously released material as well. Since Coltrane was a protean player who changed his style radically over the course of his career, this has made for much confusion in his discography and in appreciations of his playing.
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Release: April 8, 2008
Label: Verve
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Release: February 20, 2008
Label: WEA Japan
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