Tag Archives: R&B
Missing Trane
This month we remember the death of John Coltrane on July 17, 1967. Coltrane’s resume stretches from R&B honking to playing with be-bop legends like Miles and Monk, to pioneering his own spiritually illuminated free jazz in the last decades of his life. A true giant of American music, Coltrane makes my shortlist of heroes [...]
Astral Weeks at 45
Van Morrison joined the British Invasion with Them until he left the band to meet Dylan and the folk rock revolution head-on with his first great masterpiece, Astral Weeks. Here’s what Rolling Stone has to say about this epic, emotive music: Van Morrison never sounded more warm and ecstatic, more sensual and vulnerable, than on [...]
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Tagged 45th Anniversary, Astral Weeks, Belfast, Brown Eyed Girl, celtic, improvisation, jazz, masterpiece, R&B, Richard Davis, Rollingstone, Them, Van Morrison, Warner Bros.
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