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My Favorite Things (Rhino Reserve)
The Tiberi Tapes
“Acknowledgement”
Official Music Video
Best of John Coltrane LP
1960-1964 Mono (Rhino High Fidelity)
Supreme Wednesdays on SiriusXM Real Jazz
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration Of The Legend, Edited by Ravi Coltrane
Coltrane 100: Selections from 1951-1967 LP box set and highlights CD
Coltrane (1957) Original Jazz Classics
COLTRANE: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL CELEBRATION OF THE LEGEND
A definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane’s life, music, and enduring cultural influence.
Edited by Ravi Coltrane, this hardcover volume brings together rare and expertly curated images of Coltrane, including photographs by Chuck Stewart and Francis Wolff, with personal contributions from artists, musicians, and writers shaped by his work.
The book includes outtakes from the Ascensionalbum cover photoshoot, in-studio candid images from the recording of Blue Train, and a backstage glimpse with Alice Coltrane before their first performance together. Contributions include Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu, Carlos Santana, and Patti Smith. Penguin Random House also lists Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among the contributors and notes the book as a 288-page hardcover from Ten Speed Press
JOHN COLTRANE: THE TIBERI TAPES
The Tiberi Tapes opens a door long-whispered about among Coltrane fans: intimate, previously-unheard live recordings made by saxophonist Frank Tiberi as he followed John Coltrane through Philadelphia and New York clubs in the early 1960s. Captured on modest reel-to-reel equipment, these performances trade polish for presence, placing the listener close to the bandstand as Coltrane and his bandmates test, stretch and transform the music in real time. The sound bears the immediacy of its origins: raw, direct and alive with discovery.
For Tiberi, these tapes were study materials, a private archive of harmonic information and musical inspiration. More than sixty years later, they emerge as something larger: a vital chapter in the Coltrane story, preserving the feeling, risk and relentless searching that made the bandstand his truest laboratory. Heard now, the music feels not archival but immediate, a living document of curiosity, discipline and ecstatic momentum.
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