john coltrane discography part 1: sessions as sideman (1949-1961)
This article, a discography based on John Coltrane’s recordings as a sideman to other artists, is a work-in-progress and not quite ready for publication.
Jazz
JAZZ collects those few articles I write when I venture into jazz. While I listened to some jazz as a teenager, I dug rock & music and didn’t start really paying attention to it until In A Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970).
Most of the articles here will be aimed at record collectors, not at jazz aficionados. Discographies and price guides may be included in these articles.
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the transfiguration of young man mose allison
DURING THE BRITISH INVASION of 1964-1966, ‘serious’ information on the British groups—in fact, on rock & roll artists in general—was very hard to come by for we American fans. Fans had to turn to the teenybopper fan mags of the era for any transfiguration of their tastes from the ordinary to the extraordinary. [Continue reading]
the glorious life and inglorious death of jaco pastorius
TO MANY MUSICIANS AND FANS, John Francis Anthony Pastorius III—or Jaco to everyone who knew him—was arguably the most inventive and most influential electric jazz bass-player of the past forty years. His flair in both playing his instrument and in onstage performance earned him the nickname the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the bass.’ He [Continue reading]