Previous to this reissue, both versions of "Ascension" were available on separate discs of an earlier compilation, The Major Works of John Coltrane. The programming of this new offering places them ...

“The first time I heard John Coltrane, the sound of his tenor sax seared through ... Still sounding truly avant-garde 48 years later, Trane smilingly referred to Ascension as “a big-band thing” – his ...

After years of playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, saxophonist and composer John Coltrane ... influenced Coltrane's more abstract works, including 1965's Ascension ...

Ringo plays the rhythm, Paul holds down the bass, John adds the chords ... But by 1965, when Coltrane recorded the group improvisation of Ascension with 10 musicians and no sheet music, the ...

John Coltrane's "Alabama," recorded in 1963 ... author of the Coltrane biography "Ascension." "In the polarized politics of the 1960s," Nisenson wrote, "when some black radicals tried to portray ...

The special service is called the Sonic Ascension Service, and it is planned to celebrate the day both John Coltrane and Billie Holiday died and presumably entered musical heaven. As a rare church ...