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John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Deep Dive (Part 2)
Lewis Porter, pianist, professor and the ultimate Coltranographer, has actually found more to delve into with A Love Supreme. I won’t spoil the surprises.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Ray Suhy & Lewis Porter Quartet - Transcendent - just one track in the streaming player, and I’d say it belongs to drummer Rudy Royston - he is on fire! (Sunnyside Records)
Jazz history is rife with examples of these musical seekers. Saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist McCoy Tyner come to mind immediately as musicians who used their development in music to reach beyond themselves. Guitarist Ray Suhy and pianist Lewis Porter come together on their new recording, Transcendent, under the influence of these wayfaring heroes to create music that reaches magical heights of musical interaction. Porter has been well known in the New York City jazz scene for some time. His expert piano playing can be heard regularly throughout the City as well as on tour throughout the USA and Europe. Porter has also played an important part in advancing the music’s legacy as a scholar. He has written important books on the subject (including the impressive John Coltrane: His Life and Music) and has been a professor and director of Rutgers-Newark University’s Jazz History program. Guitarist Suhy came to jazz early in life, as he was introduced to the music of Miles Davis and Coltrane during his formative years. He attended Berklee College of Music and the New School before moving back to Maine, where he taught and became involved professionally with bands ranging from metal to jazz. Now based in New Jersey, Suhy is best known as the lead guitarist in Six Feet Under, a widely touring and influential death metal band.
Ray Suhy - guitar Lewis Porter - acoustic piano & Fender Rhodes Brad Jones - bass Rudy Royston - drums
Gazette Reprise: A Favorite of Gazette Followers
Remembering Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Nick Spitzer focuses his excellent public radio program American Routes on John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and their brief but resonating musical relationship, with help from historian Lewis Porter and T.S. Monk.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Listen to Earliest Surviving Ellington Radio Broadcast
Leave it to David Sager, Vince Giordano and Steven Lasker, three all-star collectors, researchers, historians and musicians to come up with this rare disc of Duke Ellington which has now been transferred and made available on WBGO’s Deep Dive. It’s the earliest of Ellington broadcasts (1932) and is quite a find!
-Scott Wenzel
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Public Radio: American Routes
Remembering Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Nick Spitzer focuses his excellent public radio program American Routes on John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and their brief but resonating musical relationship, with help from historian Lewis Porter and T.S. Monk.
-Michael Cuscuna
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John Coltrane's Lost Album from Many Directions
Lewis Porter is an amazing teacher author and historian. His fascination and knowledgable research on John Coltrane has shed layers of understanding into the tenor saxophonist’s art, methods and output. His analysis of the new Coltrane release From Both Directions At Once is enlightening and fascinating. While I disagree with his premise that this body of work wasn’t meant to be an album (he rarely recorded more than two or three tunes at a time in 1961 and 1962, and suddenly here was a varied album’s worth of material), his insights are invaluable.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Art Tatum: Stealth Radical of the Jazz Piano Pantheon
From the magnificent pianist, educator and jazz historian Lewis Porter and WBGO radio comes this brilliant essay on Art Tatum. Lewis presents a wealth of examples that showcase not the trademark Tatum improvisations at blistering tempos but the free and dissonant solo and accompanying chops he possessed. This will make you want to discover more Tatum and listen with new ears.
-Scott Wenzel
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