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Originally Posted by DemonBox
i like all of you guys. And i really like Atari 2600's posts, man, that guy knows everything i wanna know. And he gave me some advice on which Coltrane album I should go with.. yes, Giant Steps was amazing.
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thanks
...IS amazing...
Ballads is moving up on my Coltrane chart with a bullet lately. Also from 1962 is his s/t Impulse! record that is really great. The s/t for Prestige is swingin' as well. I've become enchanted with The Africa/Brass Sessions & a Columbia compilation released just to fill out a contract, Coltrane's Sound, which has some otherworldly tunes. The earlier material is the best, but I like it all. My two favorites would have to be Giant Steps and My Favorite Things. I was wondering if you got a chance to download the Falkonerteatret concert in Copenhagen, Denmark 11/20/61; it's a real treat
. A collector at DIME recently seeded his earliest known recordings from 1949 with his unit's Navy band.
http://home.att.net/~dawild/john_col...iscography.htm is a great site that exhaustively lists every session Coltrane ever played on in his lifetime. Well, just about, although Coltrane documentarians know he played in the Navy band while stationed in Hawaii, the 1949 recordings are new to just about everyone, I imagine. After producer Bob Thiele passed in '96, a lot of unreleased material engineered & recorded by Rudy Van Gelder (of course) came to light & resulted in a good deal of deluxe editions of his albums. And it was only last year that a Library of Congress worker discovered the recording of the concert at Carnegie Hall with Thelonius Monk.
The page at Impulse!
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?aid=2660 is good too.
http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm is a bit weak.
A cool essay on Davis, Coltrane & Hancock is here:
http://members.tripod.com/vermontrev...ixtiesjazz.htm
Moshe & hamstered didn't get props & neither did perhaps Sonic Youth's truly biggest fans & collectors like rappard, Chris Lawrence, pokkeherrie, & Richard Pryor on Fire. All of whom don't post here that often, which is probably the reason why.