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  • Sheets Of Sound: John Coltrane, Prestige And The Path To Immortality

    05/31/2024 4:02:16 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | May 31, 2024 | Charles Waring
    John Coltrane’s sessions for the Prestige label proved to be supremely fertile and prolific, marking the saxophonist’s creative rebirth.It’s 1958 and John Coltrane is looking to rebuild his career. The reputation of the Philadelphia-raised musician, then 32, had seemed in serious jeopardy a year earlier, after his heroin addiction got him fired from Miles Davis’ group. As a rising star of the tenor saxophone – the man who had lit up a clutch of Davis albums recorded for both Prestige and Columbia during 1955-56 – the high-flying Coltrane seemed an indispensable component of the trumpeter’s band, but the shock of...