Coltrane Code
Bret PrimackThe Coltrane Code is a space where jazz, spirituality, and personal storytelling intersect to explore how John Coltrane’s music offers lessons for living with depth, clarity, and purpose.
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“Resolution” Live in Philly
"There’s an astonishing private taping of the second movement of “A Love Supreme,” titled “Resolution,” recorded at a club called Pep’s, in Philadelphia, on September 18, 1964. It’s a half-hour long (and in dim sound), and it features Coltr...
John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy "Impressions"
The July 24-29 gig in 1961 at Philadelphia’s The Showboat.
Coltrane played the Showboat in Philadelphia repeatedly in the early 1960s, and some of those performances survive on tape. The club was in the basement of the Douglass Hotel at 14...
The First Tiberi Tape
The Tiberi Tapes are private recordings of John Coltrane playing live in clubs. Frank Tiberi, a saxophonist, made them starting in 1960, in New York and Philadelphia. He did it to study Coltrane’s playing, because he felt the studio albums...
John Coltrane’s First Quartet Recording
John Coltrane Quartet -- Live at the Jazz Gallery, New York City, July,1960
Personnel:
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Steve Davis – bass
Pete La Roca – drums
Tracklist:
1. Libe...
The Ceremony That Sounded Like Chaos: John Coltrane, Rumi, and the Late Music Nobody Understood
The standard verdict on John Coltrane’s final recordings — that he abandoned structure and lost his way — assumes the music was meant to satisfy aesthetic criteria it was never designed to meet. Viewed through the lens of Sufi spiritual pra...
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Journalist, filmmaker, and self-appointed major factotum, Bret plays a dangerous kazoo, writes sharper sentences, and believes art saves lives, aliens are real, and swing is not music but a moral position. Proceed accordingly.
Bret Primack has a Samurai’s Spirit and a bold, courageous heart — signs of his fearlessly creative life. An expat south of the border and a practicing Zen Buddhist, he believes the best is yet to come.
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