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CATASTROPHIC COLTRANE

Geoff Dyer, autore di Natura morta con custodia di sax, commenta l'uscita dell'album inedito di John Coltrane, Offering, Live at Temple University.

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Offering: Live at Temple University offers further evidence of the catastrophe of the last phase of John Coltrane’s work. “Last” rather than “late” because he became ill and died too suddenly (on July 17, 1967), too early, to have properly entered a late period. He was forty. In any other field of activity that would be a desperately short life. Only in jazz could it be considered broadly in line with actuarial norms. So there’s no late phase in the accepted sense of Beethoven having arrived at a late style, only a sudden ceasing of the unceasing torrent of sound.

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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/oct/04/catastrophic-coltrane/

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IL PRIMO SOLO DI BRANFORD

Branford Marsalis will release In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral, his first solo album, Oct. 21 on Marsalis Music via OKeh Records. Recorded Oct. 5, 2012, the album was cut live at the San Francisco landmark and features Marsalis on soprano, alto and tenor saxophones. The cathedral was the site of one of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in the ’60s and, since 1983, home to recitals of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival.

Fonte: 

http://jazztimes.com/articles/141075-branford-marsalis-to-release-in-my-solitude-live-at-grace-cathedral