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February 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Bashing Out: My Top 10 ‘Drum’ Albums
I was hooked on Modern Drummer magazine as a teen. And I always liked reading the record reviews at the back of the Modern Drummer, they focused on drums and ‘drum’ albums or at least highlighted the drums and drumming on pop and rock records when they reviewed them. They might write-up a pop album because of […]Archive
February 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life
You know the drill by now – here’s the catch-all blurb/explanation I’ve created for these sorts of lists We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” I […]Archive
February 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Chasin’ The Trane
If I could curl up anywhere for some peace and quiet it would be inside Chasin’ The Trane, the side-long third cut on John Coltrane’s Live At The Village Vanguard album. Coltrane’s tenor sounds like it’s being chased by Jimmy Garrison’s bass. Elvin Jones, again, beatin’ those drums like they owe him money – and […]Archive
January 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 99 – Adam Page
Welcome to episode 99 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Adam Page, he’s an Australian musician – based in Adelaide. He runs Wizard Tone Studios and the label Wizard Tone Records is home to not only his own recordings but a great range […]Archive
August 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 522
John Coltrane, Live at The Village Vanguard (1962) One of my all-time favourite albums – one of my favourite John Coltrane albums, from a killer-period with that legendary quartet; I had two copies of this on CD – because I would regularly loan one out and had to have a copy with me at all […]Archive
July 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: John Coltrane Is Dead And I Am Alive And What – If Anything – Am I Doing About THAT?!
John Coltrane’s been dead for 50 years. A Love Supreme still means more to me, most times I play it, than any other record. John Coltrane was 40. And then dead. I’m older than him now. I’ve beaten him. On one level – and that feels weird. Should it feel weird? Does it seem weird […]Archive
October 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
A Love Supreme: John Coltrane’s Life-Changing Sound
My brother arrived home from university with The Stardust Sessions and A Love Supreme. These two albums were life-changing. That’s such a cliché but it’s a cliché for a reason – it’s something that does happen, that has happened often. I carried on playing sport, going to school. In so many ways life was the […]Archive
September 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 818
McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy (1967) I first heard McCoy Tyner (at least as far as I was aware) on that magnificent album, A Love Supreme. A life-changing thing that, I had to look up every player and follow what they had done both under the spell of John Coltrane and then away on their own. I […]Archive
August 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: Family First
Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet Family First Beat Music Productions Mark Guiliana continues to surge on as singular talent – drummer, educator, composer, producer and under his own label/stable he continues to excel in both the quantity and quality stakes with his releases. Here we have an album by his jazz quartet – a set of […]Archive
March 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 918
John Coltrane, The European Tour (1980) The classic John Coltrane quartet – the line-up of his I love the most. This was recorded in 1963, released in 1980 – there’s some pretty wonderful versions of the songs here. Staples from Coltrane’s career – just a small handful of tunes of course, but all of them […]Archive
June 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman