For Coltrane
For Coltrane | |
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Live album by Marilyn Crispell | |
Released | 1993 |
Recorded | July 10, 1987 |
Venue | Logan Hall, London |
Genre | Free Jazz |
Label | Leo Records CD LR 195 |
Producer | Leo Feigin |
For Coltrane is a live solo piano album by Marilyn Crispell. It was recorded at Logan Hall in London in July 1987, and was released in 1993 by Leo Records.[1] The recording took place during a concert in which Crispell supported Alice Coltrane and her sons Ravi and Oran with a set dedicated to Alice's late husband.[2]
In the album liner notes, Crispell wrote: "I was listening to A Love Supreme one night and it changed my life. I decided to get back into music and I had this mystical experience where I felt the presence and guiding of Coltrane's spirit in the room. I asked for his help and I know he gave it to me because I could feel him there and because right afterwards everything in my life went so suddenly and strongly in the right direction..."[3]
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [2] |
Tom Hull – on the Web | B+[5] |
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and stated: "Solo performances by Crispell are dramatic, harmonically tense and wholly absorbing... Opening with a torrid 'Dear Lord' and closing with the billowing 'After the Rain', she improvised a series of 'collages' in memory of the great saxophonist. She also performed a piece called 'Coltrane Time', a title of convenience for a sequence of rhythmic cells on which the saxophonist had been experimenting in the period immediately before his death. A beautiful record."[2]
Track listing
- "Dear Lord" (John Coltrane) – 7:09
- "Collage for Coltrane I" (Crispell) – 5:46
- "Collage for Coltrane II" (Crispell) – 5:35
- "Collage for Coltrane III" (Crispell) – 4:27
- "Lazy Bird" (John Coltrane) – 3:55
- "Coltrane Time" (John Coltrane) – 5:31
- "After the Rain" (John Coltrane) – 11:52
Personnel
- Marilyn Crispell – piano
References
- ^ "Marilyn Crispell: For Coltrane". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ a b c Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 299.
- ^ Crispell, Marilyn (1993). For Coltrane (liner notes). Marilyn Crispell. Leo Records. CD LR 195.
- ^ "Marilyn Crispell: For Coltrane". AllMusic. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ Hull, Tom. "Marilyn Crispell". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
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