Coltrane: The Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff
Publisher: Picador

What is it about the song that resonates with you? His father (who recorded the landmark Blue Train for Blue Note in 1957) died when Ravi was only two. Akie Bermiss: It combines old school sensibility and harmony (like classic soul) with hip hop and modern soul elements. Diwon: The songs have so much life in them. Dugans: The musicianship, song-writing and especially the drums. Have you ever covered a song from the album? My uncle gave this to me for Christmas, proving himself yet again to be a great gift giver. It still sounds fresh today four decades later. Aug 10, 2007 - And so in Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23), by Ben Ratliff, we see Coltrane bursting with talent but crippled by drugs. Born on Long Island in 1965, Ravi is the second son of John and Alice Coltrane. And it tells a love story in a creative, almost metaphorical way. True to Sneak Peek There is a symphony being orchestrated in the truest sense of the word: a harmony, a union of sound, different voices expressing the same sentiment in concert with each other. Jun 27, 2013 - The poem attends, in the dual senses of waiting and listening, but it also promises to overcome in an imagined ideality the bifurcations of race, geography and history that both inform this music and mark its distance. Alice, a renowned Herbie Hancock as “a musical painter,” Loueke combines harmonic complexity, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African folk forms, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. What Stevens describes as Stevens, in a subtle but deft move, refigures the listener as an active presence, as hearing becomes a forging in the consciousness of the listener not just of sound but of aural form, and of meaning. Feb 17, 2014 - ABOUT RAVI COLTRANE. May 1, 2011 - I was setting on the showroom floor polishing away, while listening to Coltrane's tune “The Promise,” on headphones. Mar 12, 2014 - Dugans: “Wanton Song”. Oct 11, 2007 - COLTRANE: THE STORY OF A SOUND. Sep 28, 2007 - azz needs to find a better way to live with the ghost of John Coltrane, says music critic Ben Ratliff. Sep 30, 2013 - Their “Coltrane Ballad” concert this evening is their first all-jazz program, with maestro Victor Cheng showing off his jazz chops at the piano, giving way to his New-York-based Canadian collaborator and friend Daniel Jamieson to lead at the podium. All of sudden, for some reason that I can't explain to this day, I started screaming at the top of my voice. Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (2007); L. Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom (2010); discography by Y. Jan 18, 2011 - Book Reaction – Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. This new book by Ben Ratliff is a pretty decent analysis of the significance of Coltrane's music and it's impact.