OffStereo

John Coltrane

OffStereo builds narrated music history shows around real records. John Coltrane runs through 5 of them, each one placing them inside a wider story. They appear most often alongside Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Herbie Hancock.

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Shows where John Coltrane appears

Jazz's Revolutionary Sixties

The 1960s transformed jazz, as Coltrane's modal innovations, Dolphy's free explorations, and Adderley's soul grooves radically diversified the sound.

2 of 8 tracks — My Favorite Things · Acknowledgement

10 chapters · 8 tracks · 1 plays

Alice Coltrane: Harp of the Divine

Alice Coltrane's spiritual journey, from Dorothy Ashby's harp to Eastern philosophies, births a cosmic jazz language that echoes John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

1 of 8 tracks — Ogunde

10 chapters · 8 tracks · 1 plays

Favorite Things, New Rings

Ariana Grande's "7 rings" flips Rodgers and Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things" into a modern luxury anthem, tracing the melody's journey from Julie Andrews' innocence to John Coltrane's jazz and Luther Vandross's soul.

1 of 8 tracks — My Favorite Things

10 chapters · 8 tracks · 1 plays

Yusef Lateef's Eastern Jazz Odyssey

Yusef Lateef's 'Autophysiopsychic Music' brings global sounds to jazz by 1957, from Egyptian argol to Indian flutes, profoundly shaping John and Alice Coltrane's spiritual explorations.

1 of 8 tracks — India

10 chapters · 8 tracks · 1 plays

Pharoah Sanders: Spirit's Ecstatic Sound

Pharoah Sanders' ecstatic saxophone, alongside John and Alice Coltrane, defines spiritual jazz's transcendent sound, a legacy still echoing from Impulse! to Kamasi Washington.

1 of 8 tracks — Naima

10 chapters · 8 tracks · 1 plays

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Alice Coltrane3 Pharoah Sanders2 Herbie Hancock1 Miles Davis1 The Supremes1 Jay-Z1 A Tribe Called Quest1