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  3. John Coltrane Album Covers

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Is that an LP? Wow...

    yep, JP Impulse LP.

    There's also Second Night in Tokyo, which was released a few years later, and is IMO even stronger:

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    It is too bad that the jam sessions with Japanese musicians were not recorded. I asked Fujioka-san and he confirmed no tapes were made.

    31 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    There are photos, I recall, of Alice Coltrane's Dix Hills recording studio showing posters of that grey-pattern cover art on the walls.

    Ah! I always wondered where they cribbed that pattern from.

    I too have AU 4950 in NM condition.

  4. John Coltrane Album Covers

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    On 9/25/2024 at 6:58 PM, JSngry said:

    Some of the CD packagings are uninspired. Like, the Japan thing had an infinitely more interesting cover as an LP. No idea why they did that...maybe in response to the Marsailian-ish fear of music like that, maybe they wanted it to look like something else.

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    vs

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    Hmmm....not sure I'd agree with that, at least not for original issues.

    Coltrane was famous. He had a saleable visage. Was there ever a Beatles album without them on the cover? Or Sinatra?

    And they weren't even saints!!!!! :g

    Japanese original: 

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    On 9/25/2024 at 7:15 PM, JSngry said:

    Oh, photos, yeah, probably. But why not? Again, he was famous (relative to the market).

    But the actual designs themselves, I think the OGs are pretty varied, even within the impulse! "brand look". And even then, after the next regime came in...

     

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    etc

     

    Impulse pressing is a reissue. First came out on Coltrane Records:

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    a few of the Atlantics and some of the early Prestige LPs did not have images of the artist, either, though he was arguably less of a household name at the time.

  12. Nick Gravenites RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    On 9/20/2024 at 8:27 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

    Back in the late '60s he screamed at me in public for "swallowing the bullshit stuff of the AACM".

    I have this early 45

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    The band includes Roscoe Mitchell, Elvin Bishop, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield and Steve McCall

    been after that 45 for quite some time as well. Unlikely to run into one!

    RIP...

  21. Chris Bowman's Manix/Joe Fiedler Trio 9/29 in Kingston, New York

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    The fall season of "So, What Do You Think?" is upon us at Tubby's in Kingston, New York. Ten days from now, on Sunday, September 29, we are pleased to present an evening concert consisting of two trios that range from the far-flung burgs of New Paltz, Kingston, Peekskill, and New York City. 

     
    Headlining the evening will be drummer Chris Bowman's Manix with guitarist John Bruschini and trumpeter John Mulkerin. An electric convergence of Downtown NYC post-no wave, free funk, and related structures, the trio's individual collaborators have included Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Bley, Annette Peacock, George Garzone, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, James Chance, Luther Thomas, Charles "Bobo" Shaw, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Butch Morris, and Makanda Ken McIntyre –– some of the deepest figures in modern creative music, and that depth will be carried through to Tubby's. Bowman is also a drum shop owner in New Paltz, and in 2023 provided "So, What Do You Think?" with a set of congas that were imbued with a lot of history and fire.
     
    Manix in a quartet version can be heard here: https://bruschinimulkerinbowmanpeskoff.bandcamp.com/album/manix
     
    Bruschini's solo music can be heard to recent advantage here: https://johnbruschini.bandcamp.com/album/cecil-ensorcelled-2
     
    The opening salvos of the evening will come from trombonist Joe Fiedler and his trio with longtime collaborators guitarist Pete McCann (Dave Liebman, Lee Konitz, Maria Schneider) and drummer Michael Sarin (Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Mario Pavone). These three, augmented by saxophonist Jeff Lederer and bassist Rob Jost, recorded Like, Strange in 2017 and they'll be going into the studio again before the year's end. Fiedler is a trombonist, composer, and arranger who has had an extensive career in both avant-garde jazz and Latin music circles, as well as being the musical director for Sesame Street since ~2009. He has worked with, among others, Anthony Braxton, Maria Schneider, Andrew Hill, Sakoto Fujii, and Cecil Taylor, in addition to an extensive study and arrangement of trombonist and multiphonic pioneer Albert Mangelsdorff's music. His quartet Big Sackbut (consisting of three trombones and tuba) has reimagined the small brass ensemble for contemporary ears pitched toward rousing interplay. The Fiedler-McCann-Sarin trio is certainly something to look forward to.
     
    Tickets can be purchased in advance at this link for $10 (plus a small service fee) or at the door for $15.
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