Alice Coltrane was once dismissively referred to as “the Yoko Ono of jazz”, having gained fame by marrying her own iconic ...
Playing with an expanded double quartet comprised of Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on tenor and soprano sax, Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee on bass, Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis on drums, plus ...
For Pharoah Sanders, however, while he acknowledges that he may have ... well into his 80s and kept playing right up to his death in 1998, aged 96. Closer to home, another saxophonist Bobby Wellins, ...
Musical pioneer Alice Coltrane may not have had the widespread acclaim of her husband, but her work is being discovered by ...
This newly issued 1971 set helpfully complicates the iconic harpist and pianist’s legacy, revealing her as not just a ...
Before his untimely death on July 17, 1967, Trane gave his blessing to the next generation of players including Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, John Tchicai, Dewey Johnson, Pharoah Sanders ...
until his death in 1967, was hugely influential and ... of jazz’s avant-garde movement (namely Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Michael White, and Alice Coltrane) to join ...