Stellar Regions
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| Studio album by John Coltrane | ||||
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1995 |
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1967 |
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| Label (s) | Impulses! Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
60:23 |
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Bob Thiele , Michael Cuscuna (1995) |
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Stellar Regions is a posthumously released jazz album by John Coltrane . It gathers all the tracks that were recorded during a recording session on February 15, 1967.
The album
Coltrane has had the opportunity to go to the studio and record regularly due to its economic success. On 15 February 1967 he gathered in the studio of Rudy Van Gelder not the quintet, with whom he performed at this time, but worked there alone with his rhythm section: In addition to his wife Alice Coltrane worked Rashied Ali on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass. Some of the songs stand out because of their almost European sense of tonality ( Jimmy's Mode ), in contrast to Coltrane's usual way of working with the blues idiom . Garrison often uses his bass as a string instrument , which was unusual for him and Coltrane and in some places gives it an orchestral feel, like Seraphic Light . There are also some blues-oriented and atonal pieces.
The pieces are short and clearly structured. Some critics and musicians (including the British saxophonist Evan Parker and the Coltrane biographer Lewis Porter ) are of the opinion that Coltrane plays an alto saxophone on both versions of the piece Tranesonic , which he did not do for a long time after 1946 and only on his Japan- Did tour again in 1966. The Coltrane discographer and writer of the liner notes for the album, Dave A. Wild, also followed this view.
The tape with the recordings was rediscovered in 1994 by his widow Alice and his son Ravi Coltrane when they viewed the recordings from the last months of his life that Coltrane had taken home. Alice Coltrane is also responsible for choosing the title for eight tracks on the album. The piece Offering had been titled and selected by John Coltrane in July 1967 to appear on Coltrane's album Expression ; a duo version of the composition, here called by Alice Coltrane Stellar Regions , had previously been released under the title Venus (1974 on the saxophone-drum duo album Interstellar Space ).
Impact history
The album received a lot of critical acclaim: In Down Beat it received the top rating (five stars) and was praised as "incredibly fresh". Scott Yanow gave him 4½ points in the AllMusicGuide. It was one of the albums of the year for avant-garde magazine The Wire in 1995. The Jazz Times According Coltrane was back with the published on the album different material to the question put on a musical "transition" if Coltrane the free jazz of Ascension continued or development would have directed elsewhere. This question was rejected, for example by Konrad Heidkamp :
“Stellar Regions” does not carry the core of a possible future for jazz. It is the presence of a cosmos that one only has to touch to put aside all the music of the day. What is otherwise separate is one thing here: love - in the form of the hymn-like melody; Longing - as a search to find the one tone in the modal ramifications; Despair - in the harsh tone, the screams. "
The titles
- Seraphic Light (8:54)
- Sun Star (6:05)
- Stellar Regions (3:31)
- Iris (3:50)
- Offering (8:20)
- Configuration (4:01)
- Jimmy's Mode (5:58)
- Tranesonic (4:14)
- Stellar Regions [Alternate Take] (4:37)
- Sun Star [Alternate Take] (8:05)
- Tranesonic [Alternate Take] (2:48)
All compositions were written by John Coltrane.
Web links
- Stellar Regions at Allmusic (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Coltrane's piece To Be , which , according to the information on the album Expressions , was also recorded in the same session, is missing here because, according to the now known evidence, it was not recorded on that day. See David A. Wild, Liner Notes
- ↑ a b Dave A. Wild: Coltrane Discography 1967 ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Down Beat , H. 2/1996, p. 41
- ↑ The Wire Albums of the Year .
- ^ "Coltrane was again in transition" H. 3/1996, p. 89
- ↑ See for example Shoemaker's question to the musicians of the Rova Saxophone Quartet
- ↑ time to listen . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1995
