Music - Sept. 17, 2007
The Trane rolls along
Last year, Prestige began a new series of boxes trying to chip down that megalith into affordable and digestible chunks. The second installment is now out.
Tags: coltrane, pawelski, prestige, concord, fantasy, jazz, tenor, dix hills, long island, national register of historic places

Music - Jan. 16, 2007
OnMilwaukee.com music update: Jan. 16-21, 2007
There's a new local music podcast with Julie Lawrence and WMSE's Brent Gohde, hits from Atomic and news from WMSE ... all here in the OnMilwaukee.com music update.
Tags: gohde, atomic, wmse, coltrane

Music - Jan. 14, 2007
Alice Coltrane dies at 69
Jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, widow of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, died Friday, Jan. 12 at the West Hills Hospital near Los Angeles. She was 69.
Tags: Coltrane

Music - Oct. 8, 2006
Tyner brings a bit of Blue Note to Alverno
As the McCoy Tyner Trio, Tyner and his sidemen, Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums, the band performed an 80-minute set -– replete with two encores including one after the houselights had already been turned on –- that left the audience exhilarated and ready for more.
Tags: Tyner, Charnett Moffett, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Coltrane, Alverno

Music - Aug. 11, 2006
New Trane set due for arrival
Even though she's in Amsterdam, we caught up with Milwaukee's Cheryl Pawelski to ask her about the new six-CD John Coltrane box she's compiled with her partner in archives, Patrick Milligan.
Tags: Coltrane, Concord, Prestige, Pawelski

Music - July 15, 2006
Monk/Trane collaborations still flowing
"The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings" is loaded not only with satisfying final takes but fascinating outtakes that offer insight into how genius works. It also reminds us -- as the only studio document of Monk's '57 outfit with Coltrane -- of the potential of this short-lived partnership.
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Blakey

Music - May 21, 2006
Kahn chronicles Impulse!
Ashley Kahn, often heard on NPR, is the author of books about the making of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" LP and Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." His new volume is an eclectic portrait of one of the most eclectic labels in jazz history, Creed Taylor's Impulse!.
Tags: Coltrane, Shepp, Ayler, Impulse, Ashley Kahn, jazz, Impulse, Blakey, Mingus, Pharaoh Sanders

Music - May 17, 2006
Miles / Trane set long overdue
It takes a Milwaukeean, sometimes, to get the job done. When ex-Brew City gal Cheryl Pawelski took a job at Concord Records, she promised that good things were coming soon. She didn't lie. The first fruit of her tenure at Concord has led to "The Miles Davis Quartet: The Legendary Prestige Sessions,"
Tags: Miles Davis, Coltrane, Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe, Pawelski, Prestige, Concord

Music - Nov. 8, 2004
Jazz clubs upped old Milwaukee's hipster quotient
Remember when there were jazz clubs in Milwaukee? Not just one or two places, but a whole scene of venues providing a stage not only for local musicians but for the giants of the music, those cats who would later become jazz legends? No, sadly, most of us don't.
Tags: jazz, scaler's, coltrane, Curro's, curo's, Izzy Pogrob, Scenic Lounge, Tunnel, Front Street, Scat Johnson, Claude Dorsey, Berkeley Fudge

Music - May 27, 2003
Soutrane's empire of musical freedom
Chicago-born and Milwaukee-based musician Jason Wietlespach been in a multitude of free music ensembles, most notably as saxophonist, bassist and production engineer for the groups Castle Broadway and Field of Sound. Starting his own record label, Soutrane, has given him an outlet to work creatively in both sound and visual mediums.
Tags: Wietlespach, Soutrane, Crouton, Loam, Pele, Soutine, Coltrane