John Surman: Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop – April 69 – review

(Cuneiform) The presence of John Coltrane looms over this session – a previously unreleased TV show made for NDR in Hamburg in 1969, almost two years after Coltrane had died. The British saxophonist John Surman (then a 24-year-old rising star) was consumed by Coltrane's ability to sustain improvised music of unprecedented intensity. This audio and DVD package is a precious fragment of the jigsaw for students of British jazz emancipation, and for Surman fans fascinated by his journey from fre...

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