The Sound Routes II presents
Sunday 03.11.2019 4pm | Café
Admission: pre sale 5 € plus fee / box office 10 €, 5 € (reduced), 3 € (Berlin Pass)
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen
Production
HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED
Jazz musicians worldwide absorb different influences and traditions and in so doing drive different kinds of developments. Particularly Berlin, a city characterised by migration, exile and high mobility, is a place where classical and traditional music genres from various regions of the world are defining and rejuvenating the Jazz scene of Berlin.
After the phenomenal success of HOMAGE SESSION in 2018, we are following up with HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED. At the launch of HOMAGE SESSION, the in-house World Jazz ensemble LITTLE BIG BAND was formed.
Homage Session reloaded follows a format whereby during the first set a World-Jazz album is presented as musical focal point. During subsequent jam sessions, other musicians from various origins continue reworking the album.
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In this edition of HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED, the World-Jazz-ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, Little Big Band, plays WorldJazz by John Coltrane.
Line-up
- Joel Holmes - piano
- Charles Sammons - bass
- Eric Vaughn - drums
Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq - sax
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums of other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. He remains one of the most influential saxophonists in music history. He received many posthumous awards, including canonisation by the African Orthodox Church and a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His second wife was pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane. Their children Ravi Coltrane, Oran Coltrane and John Coltrane Jr are all musicians.
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After Coltrane's death, a congregation called the Yardbird Temple in San Francisco began worshiping him as God incarnate. The group was named after Charlie Parker, whom they equated to John the Baptist. The congregation became affiliated with the African Orthodox Church; this involved changing Coltrane's status from a god to a saint. The resultant St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, San Francisco, is the only African Orthodox church that incorporates Coltrane's music and his lyrics as prayers in its liturgy. |
In 1965, Coltrane was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. In 1972, 'A Love Supreme' was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over half a million copies in Japan. This album garnered gold in the United States in 2001. In 1982, Coltrane was posthumously awarded a Grammy for Best Jazz Solo Performance on the album 'Bye Bye Blackbird' and in 1997 he won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named him one of his 100 Greatest African Americans. He received a special Pulitzer Prize in 2007 citing his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz." He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
A former home, the 'John Coltrane House' in Philadelphia, was designated a national historic landmark in 1999. His last home, the John Coltrane Home in the Dix Hills district of Huntington, New York, where he resided from 1964 until his death, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 2007. His son Ravi, named after Ravi Shankar, is also a saxophonist.
The parent company of Impulse!, from 1965 to 1979 known as ABC Records, purged much of its unreleased material in the 1970s.
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, is a 2016 American film directed by John Scheinfeld. Narrated by Denzel Washington, the film chronicles the life of Coltrane in his own words and includes interviews with such admirers as Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Bill Clinton, and Cornel West.
LITTLE BIG BAND
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Whether at a concert hall or opera house, theatre or ballet - a permanent artistic ensemble is standard for most cultural institutions. The in-house World Jazz ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, 'LITTLE BIG BAND', is a dynamic ensemble of jazz and world musicians whose members change according to whose world jazz compositions are being performed. Within the framework of HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED, the fixed core of musicians are aided by colleagues from the THE SOUND ROUTES project - depending on what type of work of a respective world jazz composer is played and interpreted. Saxophonist Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq is the band leader of the LITTLE BIG BAND and curator of the concert series HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED. |
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