John Coltrane

“Alabama”

• 1. For Dr.King: Coltrane, Hidden Texts, and “Alabama,” 1—Background Information
• 2. Lewis Porter’s text analysis

A Love Supreme

• A Love Supreme (live in France, 1965)
• A Love Supreme manuscript
• A Love Supreme – Full Album Transcription (motive transpositions at 4:58)
• “Psalm,” recording from A Love Supreme showing the poem; recording showing individual lines
• liner notes: text only;  album cover images; closeup of text
• 1965 Down Beat Readers Poll award winners; DB Critic’s Poll
• Lewis Porter’s substack
  • Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Part 1—Background Information, and My Personal Memories

Ascension liner notes (1965)

Audio interviews

• Interview (1958), August Blume, Baltimore
• Interview (1960), Carl-Erik Lindgren, Stockholm
• Interview (1961-1965), Michiel de Ruyter, Amsterdam?
• Interview w/Frank Kofsky (1966), Pacifica Radio Archives,  on tumblr
• Collected on johncoltrane.com

Video

• “So What” (with Miles Davis, 1959)
• “On Green Dolphin Street” (March 28, 1960, Dusseldorf, Germany)

• John Coltrane Quartet with Eric Dolphy – “Impressions” (11/24/1961, Baden Baden, W. Germany)

• on Jazz Casual 1963 (“Afro Blue,” “Alabama,” “Impressions“)
• “My Favorite Things” (Belgium, 1965)
• A Love Supreme (6ème Festival international de jazz à Antibes 1965 : émission du 21 août 1966)
• at Newport (1966)
• Ravi Shankar on meeting Coltrane
  • Reminiscences about John Coltrane, 2001
  • Ravi Shankar album covers

Discographies

• Discography with album cover photos
• album covers
• johncoltrane.com

Musical analyses

• John Coltrane ¨Giant Steps¨ – Tenor Sax Solo (Transcription C)

• Coltrane’s Giant Steps Solo Like You’ve Never Seen it Before! (The Nature of Fractal Music Series)

• “Brasilia” analysis
• Transcription of John Coltrane’s solo on Miles’ Mode

Articles

• “On Writing a Life of John Coltrane” (article on C. O. Simpkins by Sam Stephenson)
• “Coltrane’s Hidden Gems: A Seeker’s Guide” (Oliver Trager, 9/17/2017)

Other

• Program for Coltrane’s funeral  (large copy)
• Photographs from 1964 (Chuck Stewart, at Smithsonian)
• Tell Me How Long Trane’s Been Gone (radio documentary, Steve Rowland); purchase

• Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane (1970)