John Coltrane Africa/Brass
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DadKungFu
Emeritus
August 28th 2020


6144 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That would be Tony Williams but yeah Elvin's a legend

MillionDead
August 28th 2020


6307 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Tony and Elvin are two percussion prophets. God they're both so amazing in their own ways. Too hard to compare them. Tony is so fucking agile and fast. Elvin's like the meditative explorer but he has power like some sort of boulder. Two painters. Two poets behind the kit. I'd make two separate shrines to them if I weren't so lazy.

dedex
Emeritus
May 10th 2023


13009 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

did a lil discog run (only 15 albums!) of big boi Trane and this is the one record that I didn't know about that made the most impact on me. what a dude



also that discog run made me consider Elvin Jones as a Hall of Fame drummer

MillionDead
May 10th 2023


6307 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Elvin is just one of the best to ever do it. We should be grateful for what he left behind.

robertsona
Emeritus
May 10th 2023


28660 Comments


my GOAT

JohnnyoftheWell
January 12th 2024


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9

really not a fan of how that central Greensleeves motif plays out here, but everything else about this one is aces. hmm

Demon of the Fall
January 12th 2024


38990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I Africa man

Not gentleman

Oh wait (?) wrong artist

but yeah probably about right

AsleepInTheBack
Emeritus
March 26th 2024


10745 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Weird listen. Enjoying so far. Completely different to Giant Steps and My Favourite Things. Mad he did all 3 in like 18 months.

AsleepInTheBack
Emeritus
March 26th 2024


10745 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yo greensleeves is so lively and fruity, central motif is so fun wym Johnny? What about it wasn’t your tempo

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
May 20th 2024


115148 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Man this one is so damn good. Think it just edges out A Love Supreme and Live at Birdland by just a tad for my 3rd fav Coltrane so far behind My Favorite Things and Blue Train.



8 Coltrane albums (live included) down, a hundred more to go! I think this is the most fun I've had going through a discog since I was first getting into Cradle 20 years ago lol.

JohnnyoftheWell
December 31st 2024


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9

damn his 1962 s/t is awesome and I slept on it WHERE IS THE REVIEW mmmmm

"central motif is so fun wym Johnny? What about it wasn’t your tempo"

tune itself is a classic, but Coltrane's take substitutes all its stately backbone for a maudlin amble and i am not here for it! love everything else about this album

robertsona
Emeritus
December 31st 2024


28660 Comments


The bassist on this album, Reggie Workman, once came into my college radio station while I was there

Demon of the Fall
December 31st 2024


38990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Instead of listening to whatever fresh nonsense infiltrates our consciousness in 2025, I may / will(?) endeavour to finish off Coltrane’s discog

heard a bunch but there’s so much to munch!

AsleepInTheBack
Emeritus
December 31st 2024


10745 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Good plan! Me too! Maybe…



Coltrane and Miles have such intimidating discogs to complete



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