All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating John Coltrane's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY John ColtraneJohn William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young ... more info

All About Jazz — "...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post "Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe ... more info

All About Jazz — Pithecanthropus Erectus was Charles Mingus's breakthrough as a leader and composer. The year was 1956. The defining moment was framed in no less than the historic Atlantic Studios in New York City, with the legendary producer Nesuhi Ertegn at the r... more info

All About Jazz — In case you missed one of our recent Jazz Session Podcasts by Jason Crane, click any of the links below to tune in. We've posted 7 new interviews in the last 2+ weeks. Enjoy! Steve Kuhn (51:47) Posted: 2009-08-28 Steve Kuhn's new album, Mostly ... more info

All About Jazz — THE 32ND ANNUAL JOHN COLTRANE MEMORIAL CONCERT presents “THE BELIEVER” a weekend of concerts and visual art featuring “The Believer: Concert 1” with The John Coltrane Memorial Ensemble: Carl Atkins, Leonard Brown, Sa Davis,... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said...Al Green - Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1977)Al Green - Let's Stay Together (1972)Al Green - I'm still in love with you (1972)Al Green - Everything's OKAl Green - Greatest Hits (1975)http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot.comWillard said...DERE... more info

Said the Gramophone — The Antlers - "Two". Somewhere in the world, there is a sea full of salt. Somewhere in the world, there is a building full of gold bars. Somewhere, there is a clock that runs for ten thousand years. Somewhere, a berry that makes sour things sweet. ... more info

All About Jazz — AFTER 50 years as a darling of the cognoscenti, the pianist Steve Kuhn is expanding his reach among the jazz public. Mr. Kuhn — a sideman for luminaries like John Coltrane and a leader of pioneering trios — is gaining notice for a new CD ... more info

Guardian Music — The jazz landmark, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in August, has forever changed the way in which we listen to musicSince Columbia/Sony reissued its 50th anniversary box set of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue a year prematurely in 2008, it feels as... more info

Guardian Music — Innovative drummer credited with steering John Coltrane towards free jazz in the 1960sWhen the drummer Rashied Ali, who has died aged 76, was a young man in the late 1950s, he sometimes sat in a Philadelphia park listening to the sound of a saxophone... more info