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The Holy Spirit of Alice Coltrane

A.D. Amorosi — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:22:00 +0000

Alice Coltrane has been lionized for her light and her loving devotion to God and the spirits since her first collaborations (on albums with Terry Gibbs and her husband, John Coltrane), and her earliest band-leader albums on “Impulse!” such as 1971’s “Journey in Satchidananda” and “Universal Consciousness.” With her newest work, however, the posthumously released […]

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Blue Clusters

Colin Fleming — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:50:59 +0000

If the Fates of Jazz oversaw an accounting service that charted advanced metrics like the album the most people had first fallen in love with, it’s a safe assumption that Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue would be at the top of the graphic. The LP was released 60 years ago on August 17, 1959, and it did not take long for it […]

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Giant Steps

Matt Hanson — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:30:28 +0000

If you ask me, there were quite a few cringe-worthy moments in the movie La La Land but one moment especially hit home. Early in the story, Emma Stone’s character, Mia, apprehensively confesses to Ryan Gosling’s idealistic jazz pianist that she “hates” jazz. It’s probably intended to show Mia’s relatability for the audience, but this […]

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