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| 70 Years Of Cool | ...Blue Note has grown into one of the most influential music labels in the world. Today, the label boasts a back catalogue that includes such jazz icons as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, JOHN COLTRANE, and Herbie Hancock, as well as contemporary artists like Norah Jones.... |
| Blues To Be There | ...This second programme examines some of the challenges experienced by the festival organisers, such as street riots in Newport and the establishment of Charles Mingus's Newport Rebel Festival, as well as recalling classic performances from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Anita O'Day and JOHN COLTRANE, with contributions from George Wein, Benny Golson, Don... |
| Branford Marsalis Presents Modern Jazz Classics | ...The celebrated American saxophonist explores six key jazz recordings of the last 40 years. 3: `A Love Supreme' by JOHN COLTRANE. It is one of the most powerful, profound and influential recordings in modern jazz, and Marsalis considers it to be music's greatest single achievement. McCoy Turner and Elvin Jones remember the session and reveal what it was like working with Coltrane at the height of his powers.... |
| Chris Barber's Jazz Diaries | ...Chris Barber presents a seven-part series recalling significant years in jazz history. 2: It is 1959, and JOHN COLTRANE and Dave Brubeck release highly influential albums.... |
| Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade | ...1/6. There's music from Herbie Hancock, Maceo Parker and Soil and Pimp Sessions amongst others. ourtney's special guest is legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, one of the few surviving icons from a golden era of jazz, whose contemporaries included JOHN COLTRANE, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey.... |
| Guy Barker's Jazz Collection | ...Guy takes a look at some of the classic jazz labels. Includes selections from the Blue Note, Impulse, Atlantic, Verve, and Fantasy vaults. Featured artists this week range from Albert Ammons to the John Swana Sextet, via Chet Baker, JOHN COLTRANE & Jimmy Smith.... |
| Jazz Century | ...If the defining voice of bebop was the alto sax, the symbolic sound of hard bop was the tenor, with Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and JOHN COLTRANE leading the way. Two brilliant but tragically short-lived trumpeters, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan, summed up as well as anyone what the movement was about.... |
| Jazz House, The [radio Scotland] | ...Stephen Duffy and Richard Michael present a special edition celebrating the legends of jazz, featuring profiles of Louis Armstrong, JOHN COLTRANE and Miles Davis.... |
| Jazz House | ...Stephen Duffy and Richard Michael present a special Legends of Jazz edition featuring music from Nina Simone, JOHN COLTRANE, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday and others.... |
| Jazz Library | ...To mark the 40th anniversary of the death of JOHN COLTRANE, Alyn Shipton is joined by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch to assess the Coltrane legacy, and select the recordings by the great saxophonist that should be included in any jazz collection.... |
| Jazz On 3 - Tribute To Derek Bailey | ...Composer JOHN COLTRANE... |
| Jazz On 3 | ...Jez Nelson presents a concert given by Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez at the Pizza Express jazz club as part of this year's London Jazz Festival, featuring material from his new album Cultural Survival. By incorporating the approach of heavy-toned saxophonists like JOHN COLTRANE and Sonny Rollins, and the Latin and Afro-Caribbean influences of his homeland, Sanchez has developed a fierce but lyrical style that has gained admiration worldwide.... |
| Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats | ...JOHN COLTRANE... |
| Lines Burnt In Light - The Music Of Evan Parker | ...Evan Parker is one of world's pre-eminent improvisers. Widely regarded as the most innovative saxophonist since JOHN COLTRANE he has dedicated the last four decades to making new and challenging music.... |
| Miles Davis (1926-1991) | ...By the early 1950s Davis was in the grip of a heroin addiction that threatened to destroy him. But in a supreme act of will he rid himself of the drug and relaunched his career with a new quintet which featured saxophone colossus JOHN COLTRANE ... |
| Miles Davis At 80 | ...Ian Carr looks at the years 1954 - 1960, which were tremendously creative for Miles Davis and included the first great quintet with JOHN COLTRANE. This group was later expanded to a sextet with Cannonball Adderley producing seminal albums Milestones and Kind of Blue.... |
| Millennium Jazz With Courtney Pine | ...Courtney Pine presents a six-part series charting the development of jazz this century. In this fourth programme he explores the golden age of jazz with some ground-breaking music from Art Blakey, JOHN COLTRANE and Stan Getz.... |
| Mixing It | ...Dubstep is big in the underground clubs of London at the moment, but this slice of the genre comes from a guitarist and producer called Barry Lynn who lives in Northern Ireland. Alongside the dub reggae and electro influences lies the influence of jazz greats JOHN COLTRANE and Pharoah Sanders (after whose 1966 album this track is named).... |
| Modern Jazz Classics With Branford Marsalis | ...Branford Marsalis presents the series exploring eight of the biggest-selling and most influential jazz recordings of the last 40 years. 4: JOHN COLTRANE - Giant Steps. In this edition, the classic 1959 release that established Coltrane's reputation and set the scene for an outstanding series of forthcoming releases. With contributions from Kenny Garret, Joe Lovano and Tommy Flanagan.... |
| Pieces Of A Man | ...Following in the footsteps of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, The Black Arts movement and jazz and blues musicians such as JOHN COLTRANE and Billie Holiday, Gil Scott-Heron helped pioneer the plight for racial equality and developed a new way of fusing music with hard-hitting political poetry. His story reflects the modern African-American struggle, from segregation in the South to triumph in the White House.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to Nigel Tully, leader for over 40 years of the rock band The Dark Blues, and Immediate PastMaster of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. A passionate supporter of live jazz, his choices include many jazz greats, such as Charlie Parker, Mose Allison, Miles Davis and JOHN COLTRANE, but also works by JS Bach, Bruckner and Berlioz.... |
| Ravi | ...Donovan looks at the fascinating collaborations Ravi has had with the likes of JOHN COLTRANE, Philip Glass and Yehudi Menuhin ... |
| Saxophone Colossus | ...Sonny Rollins tells John Surman about his great friendship with JOHN COLTRANE, which began in 1949. `Coltrane was a guy I borrowed money from and could borrow money from - I mean that's the kind of relationship we had.' Then there was pianist Thelonius Monk: `Monk was 14 years older than me. He was sort of my guru, my teacher, and I learned a lot from him.'.... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...The Freak Zone airs some classic live Modal jazz material from JOHN COLTRANE.... |
| Words And Music | ...Readers Emma Fielding and John Rowe visit this beguiling and bewildering space, with the musical help of Wagner, Schubert, JOHN COLTRANE and Radiohead.... |