John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
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Artist: John ColtraneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Kulu Se Mama
- Vigil
- Welcome
- Selflessness
- Dusk Dawn
- Dusk Dawn (Alternate Take)
Free Music Notes for Kulu Se Mama
Free Music Review: Trane Finds His Roots
Hit: 5 Stars
John Coltrane was undoubtly one of the greatest and most important Jazz musicians of all time, blessed with a marvelous tecnique and creativity like few he did it all in a relatively short career. First as a member of Miles Davis classic band, later with Monk and then from around 1960 to his premature death in 1967 as a brilliant solo musician that is mostly remembered for his spirituality and Avant-Gard records. Trane's diversity as a musicians is simular to Miles in the sense that he was always eager to try new things and he often changed his style of plying. Thus, old Trane records sound nothing like the newer one's where he was getting into the Avant-Gard movememt and exprimenting alot with his music and many of those albums deal with Religious Spirituality and finding his own roots. Trane was fascionated with Islam but also African music. Which this album is influenced by. We had already seen signs of what was coming on his legendary and very much loved spiritual journey "A Love Supreme" from 1964, and Trane would continues making simular albums til he died, "Transition", "Ascension", "Meditation" and this one, which isn't considered among his best one's for reasons I will get into later.
During this very productive, creative and spiritual time of John Coltrane's life he was constantly in the recording studio with his band and alot of albums were made just aswell as alot of posthumously released material. Other then Saxophonists John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders we'll find members like Donald Garett & Jimmy Garrison on Bass Elvin Jones & Frank Butler Drums/Percussion, Juno Lewis Percussion/Vocals and last but not last McCoy Tyner on Piano who also plays a key role on this album. This album which is partly influenced by African music is one hard Avante-Gard album to swallow if you're not into the genre, thus it's nothing I would recommend for beginners. It all starts with the title track which is an explosion of diffrent sounds, African Drums, sax sounds from Sanders and Coltrane and singing in an indegenous African language from Lewis I think. This song is both creative and very unique, but could by considered a pain for some people also. It clocks at 19 minutes and you'll find many diffrent parts of it, some slower with more singing and some that sounds more like an Avante-Gard inferno where nothing stops the saxophonists from playing their hearts out. Next up is a drum song called "Vigil" where Elvin Jones plays a key role, Fantastic drummer by the way!. After a while Trane jumps in and the song goes Avante-Gard from there. Third song is among the finest Jazz-Ballads ever recorded, it's called "Welcome" and it differs from everything else on this album. It's slow, meliodic and just adorable to listen to. Trane and pianist Tyner get's most of the credit here. Most people would like this song. Next up is in my oppinion Trane finest moment of his whole career. "Selflessness", it got one of the most wonderful melodies I ever heard and I believe this was his way of comminicating with god since music was religion to him. This key melody starts very slow, but will continue throughout the whole song, eventually it will all go crazy and Trane/Sanders will play their hearts out in a tumult of Saxophones that emualate the sound of Elephants. The latter part may be hard for some people to take but it's undeniable to give them credit for playing so fine together. Pianist Tyner also plays a keyrole here and got his own solo midway. Then we'll get 2 takes of "Dusk Dawn", another meliodic piece where Bassist Donald Garret got an quite unusual solo. Another great song. When the original album was released the only new song was the title track, Vigil and Welcome had already appeared on "Transition" and the last 2 songs were not present. Both of them got released on posthumous albums but eventually when the remastered version came out they were added and made this album absolutely brilliant. The reason why this isn't considered on of his best, is exactly cause of that, but if we judge the album by these 6 songs it's fantastic and deserves to be up there among his legendary records.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this album to newbies cause it's not an easy album to swallow at first listen, some of the songs are very Avante-Gard or noisy as some doubters would say, however this is one of those albums were we truly find Trane's almost religious commitment to Jazz where we know that he plays with his heart and soul. Some parts may be very hard for some people but it's undeniably meliodic and coherant, especially "Welcome" that is a ballad, "Selflessness" and "Dusk Dawn". If you're new to him check some of his older albums first like "Blue Train", "Giant Steps" and "My Favorite Things", if you have listened to "A Love Supreme" and like that, then check this one too cause it's a wonderful album that really captures the listener and make his emotionally commited to the music aswell.
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