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October 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 187: Mark de Clive-Lowe

Welcome to episode 187 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Acid-Jazz, America, Auckland, England, Funk, Harvey Mason, Hip-Hop, http://www.mdcl.tv/, Japan, Jazz, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Keyboards, LA, La Petite Chocolat, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Miles Davis, Off The Tracks, Pianist, Piano, Pino Palladino, Podcast, Questlove, R'n'B, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 187, Sweetman Podcast # 187: Mark de Clive-Lowe, Sweetman Podcast: Mark de Clive-Lowe, T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: John Quatrain 

———————- A Love SupremeA Love Supreme A Love Supreme A Love Supreme ———————-  
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme  A Love Supreme  A Love Supreme  A Love Supreme, Coltraine, John Coltrane, John Quatrain, Poem, Poem: John Quatrain, Quatrain ·

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June 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Myele Manzanza: A Love Requited 

Myele Manzanza   A Love Requited  First World Records UK  ONE was Myele Manzanza’s debut solo album – by the time of which he was a veteran of so many performances, sideman, band-member, DJ, composer. He had runs on the board already. And it showed. So much so that by the time of OnePointOne (his American live debut) that very first solo album felt like bedsit-leftovers.  That’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Love Requited, A Love Supreme, Adam Page, Album Review, Ben Harrison, First World Records UK, Jake Baxendale, Jason McMahon, Jazz, John Coltrane, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Matthew Sheens, Myele Manzanza, Myele Manzanza: A Love Requited, Ross McHenry, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art Blakey, Bashing Out, Bashing Out: My Top 10 'Drum' Albums, Buddy Rich Big Band, Cream, Deep Purple, DJ Shadow, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, Heavy Metal, Influences, Influential, Jazz, John Coltrane, Led Zeppelin, List, Max Roach, Modern Drummer, My Top 10 'Drum' Albums, Percussion, Peter Frampton, Pop, Rock, The Beatles, Top 10, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 10 Important Albums, 10 Important Jazz Albums, 10 Jazz, 10", 15 Great Hits By The Original Artists, A Love Supreme, Art Pepper, Big Swing Face, Buddy Rich, Buddy Rich Big Band, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Free Jazz, Jazz, Jazz Right In Your Face, Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Kind Of Blue, Louis Armstrong, Max Roach, Meets The Rhythm Section, Miles Davis, Money Jungle, Ornette Coleman, Portrait of Heath, Ten Important Albums, Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life, The Buddy Rich Big Band, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions, Tutu, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged a part of the regular quartet, Again, beatin’ those drums like they owe him money – and they did. Just this trio – McCoy Tyner perhaps beat me to it, Chasin' The Trane, If I could curl up anywhere for some peace and quiet it would be inside Chasin’ The Trane, John Coltrane, Live At The Village Vanguard, maybe he’s curled up deep inside there already. For you just sorta feel his presence, Short Story, Short Story: 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 ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, Bonus, Bonus Track, Chasin' The Trane, Coltrane, JC, John Coltrane, Live, Live At The Village Vanguard, LP, Original Album, Record, Reissue, Sheets of Sound, The Vinyl Countdown # 522, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 'Trane, A Love Supreme, Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane Is Dead And I Am Alive And What – If Anything – Am I Doing About THAT?!, Poem, Poem: John Coltrane Is Dead And I Am Alive And What – If Anything – Am I Doing About THAT?! ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme: John Coltrane's Life-Changing Sound, Archives, Blog, Blog Archives, Blog On The Tracks, Brother, Coltrane, Jazz, John Coltrane, Kane ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Blog On The Tracks, Contemplation, Elvin Jones, Jazz, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, LP, McCoy Tyner, Piano, Record, Ron Carter, The Real McCoy, The Vinyl Countdown # 818, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Love Supreme, Album Review, Bob Marley, Chris Morrissey, Elvin Jones, Family First, Jason Rigby, Jazz, Jimmy Garrison, John Coltrane, Johnny Was, Mark Guiliana, Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, McCoy Tyner, Shai Maestro ·
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