This book will focus onthe first period of Coltrane's career when he was with Miles Davis and the jazz vocabulary he used. Both stylistically and harmonically he opened doors for others to follow. in Catonsville, MD) OHO is Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak.Trumpet Edition-Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative creative and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. (and, if you’re in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. OHO’s "Ocean City Ditty," the CD single is now available at With the possible exception of Sun Ra’s El Saturn label, Andrew’s Music is the longest-lasting self-run, self-produced jazz record label in the world. He also used the label as a vehicle for publishing his writing, which has ranged from essays and “treatises” on music and life to adult fiction to an 850-plus-page autobiography.
From there, he recorded, produced, pressed and disseminated his own records – more than 40 in all. In an age when so-called DIY music production and promotion were unheard of, he founded his own label, Andrew’s Music. musicians is his refusal to compromise with the music industry. Nowadays, the 68-year-old seems destined to fade into obscurity.Ī possible reason why White hasn’t been as celebrated as certain other D.C. But for one reason or another, this has never happened.Īndrew White began his career as the leader of an innovative quintet on one of the world’s top jazz labels, then went on to record with McCoy Tyner and Weather Report and toured with Stevie Wonder. One would think that with all these accomplishments, this person would be the darling of D.C.’s music community, a poster child for jazz’s greatness in the nation’s capital. jazz figure who is the ultimate Renaissance man: a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who has been performing and recording here for 50 years a collaborator who has played with countless jazz greats and soul artists a scholar who is known as “Keeper of the Trane” for his meticulous transcriptions of 650 John Coltrane solos (virtually every one on record) and a producer who has released thousands of products, from recordings to transcriptions to books. was home to many significant jazz musicians, including such luminaries as Duke Ellington, Shirley Horn, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Over the course of the twentieth century, D.C. View more blog entries by Ray Jozwiak or subscribe to their blog
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