Not until the last two years of his life did John Coltrane really stop performing jazz standards. He began to focus on ecstatic group improvisations (Ascension), harmony-free meanderings (see ...

Rhythm and Noise: Chris Brown (electronics); Nels Cline (electric guitar); Fred Frith (electric bass); Ikue Mori (drum machine, sampler); Don Robinson (drums); Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, electronics ...

LA-based music collective, wild Up, returns to the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts with of Ascension, the first Jazz Club performances for the 2018/19 season on November 8 & ...

John Coltrane’s “Ascension” album of 1966 was a courageous declaration of independence even for him. It was an independence from conventional jazz harmony, melody, groove, a 40-minute burst of ...

Features the Classic John Coltrane Quartet at the peak of their powers Includes the only public performance of Ascension and of A Love Supreme which theyd recorded eight months earlier and had become ...

This two CD set brings together some very intense and transitional music recorded by John Coltrane in 1965. This was a fascinating period in his career, as his longtime quartet with McCoy Tyner on ...

Consider this show a dessert for the Impulse! main course that took place last spring, when various iconic discs on the jazz imprint were essayed anew. ‘Trane’s collective and clarion fits into that ...