In jazz one could cite a first wave of experimenters associated with bebop, such as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, and Bud Powell, and then a second wave associated with free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and the later recordings of John Coltrane.

Blue Note was by then recording a mixture of established acts ( Rollins, Adderley ) and artists who in some cases had recorded before, but often produced performances for the label which by far exceeded earlier recordings in quality ( Blue Train is often considered to be the first significant recording by Coltrane as a leader ).

However, Shepp, along with Tchicai and others from the Four for Trane sessions, then cut Ascension with Coltrane in 1965, and his place alongside Coltrane at the forefront of the avant-garde jazz scene was epitomized when the pair split a record ( the first side a Coltrane set, the second a Shepp set ) entitled New Thing at Newport released in late 1965.

The Pope Must Die stars Robbie Coltrane as a low ranking priest who is mistakenly elected Pope, then has to avoid being assassinated by the Mafia.

Griffin then succeeded John Coltrane as a member of Monk's Five Spot quartet ; he can be heard on the albums Thelonious in Action and Misterioso.

At the same time as attending college, he then began performing in folk clubs and coffee houses in Chicago, becoming strongly influenced by the music of John Coltrane.

The Ellington and Coltrane version was performed in the key of D flat major, mainly from B flat minor 7th to E flat minor 7th, and then A flat 13th to D flat major 7th, with an interesting interlude in A major.

Clark then showed the song to McGuinn and Crosby, with the former suggesting that the song be arranged to incorporate the influence of Coltrane.

" which then led to the comedy sketch show Alfresco ( where Robbie Coltrane replaced the ex-Footlights actor Paul Shearer ).

Miles Davis, who had performed the title track of his album Walkin ' at the inaugural Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, would form the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane in 1955, becoming prominent in hard bop before moving on to other styles.

Drummer Jimmy Cobb and pianist Wynton Kelly had been hired in 1958, but most difficult for Davis was the departure of John Coltrane, who stayed on for a spring tour of Europe but left to form his own quartet in the summer of 1960.

* Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward " Fitz " Fitzgerald: the classic anti-hero, an alcoholic, gambling addicted chain smoker, unfaithful to his wife and foul-mouthed, but at the same time, a brilliant psychologist with a good heart.

In the biography John Coltrane: His Life and Music, published in 1999, Lewis Porter noted that ODJB's classic, " Margie ", was a " specialty " of John Coltrane, a song he performed regularly in his early career.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

Garrison appeared on many classic Coltrane recordings, including A Love Supreme.

At that time, Russell's ideas were a crucial step into the modal music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis on his classic recording, Kind of Blue, and served as a beacon for other modernists such as Eric Dolphy and Art Farmer.

Alongside Impulse's groundbreaking avant-garde releases, Thiele also facilitated and produced the recording of two classic collaborations between Coltrane and two of their mutual heroes, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins.

It contains variations on A Love Supreme, the classic jazz album by the John Coltrane quartet.

His artistic output has ranged from straight-ahead classic jazz to chamber music, from fusion to avant garde, with numerous CDs featuring original arrangements of the music of Monk, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Alec Wilder, Cole Porter, Jobim and Puccini.

The recording features the " classic quartet " of John Coltrane: McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones ; they are joined by Eric Dolphy and Reggie Workman on the live tracks.

After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums.

One short studio session was made for Riverside ( only released later by its subsidiary Jazzland in 1961 ) and a larger group recording featuring Coltrane was split between that album and Monk's Music ; an amateur tape from the Five Spot ( not the original residency, but a later September 1958 reunion with Coltrane sitting in for Johnny Griffin ) was issued on Blue Note in 1993 ; and a recording of the quartet performing at a Carnegie Hall concert on November 29, previously " rumoured to exist ", was recorded in high fidelity by Voice of America, rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in 2005 and released by Blue Note.

His trio and quartet records of 1964, like Spiritual Unity and The Hilversum Session, show him advancing the improvisational notions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman into abstract realms where whole timbre, and not just mainly harmony with melody, is the music's backbone.

Russell formed a quartet with valve trombone player Marshall Brown, and included John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman tunes in his repertoire.

While Russell was most often associated with Dixieland or swing music, their quartet performed more adventurous, free jazz-oriented pieces, including songs by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane.

From 1962-63 she played with Terry Gibbs's quartet, during which time she met John Coltrane.

" In 1960, Coltrane left Miles and formed his own quartet to further explore modal playing, freer directions, and a growing Indian influence.

On 4 July 1957, Thelonious Monk's quartet featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums began a six month stay at the club.

Rather than continually taking the lead, he would generally add subtle harmonic, melodic and / or rhythmic complexity by responding to other member's improvisations ( although he could and did sometimes exercise a more frenetic style akin to that of John Coltrane or Michael Brecker ).

One day, Lena announces she is pregnant ( although she doesn't state who the father is ) and will become a mistress to the wealthy Scipione Borghese ( Robbie Coltrane ).

Coltrane was the Simpsons only cat since Snowball I to have been white, although he was the only one not to be named Snowball.

Jake also had the loyalty of Sheriff Rosco Coltrane, although this bond wasn't as close as it was in the TV series.

Although the series was still drawing large audiences, after " White Ghost " Coltrane declined to return as Fitz unless McGovern returned to write the series.

Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane.

He is heard on the album Someday My Prince Will Come ( alongside Coltrane, who returned for the recording of two tracks ), and some live recordings ( In Person: Live at the Blackhawk and At Carnegie Hall ).

Several performers from the 1987 show returned including: Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Willie Rushton and the Spitting Image puppets.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

Jazz pioneers such as John Coltrane — who recorded a composition entitled ' India ' during the November 1961 sessions for his album Live At The Village Vanguard ( the track was not released until 1963 on Coltrane's album Impressions )— also embraced this fusion.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

Davis was particularly fond of Rollins and tried several times, in the years that preceded his meeting with John Coltrane, to recruit him for a regular group.

At the same time, Davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his " first great quintet ": John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

Davis hired Coltrane as a replacement for Sonny Rollins, after unsuccessfully trying to recruit alto saxophonist Julian " Cannonball " Adderley.

During a period when he was between recording contracts, he made records with Louis Armstrong ( Roulette ), Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane ( both for Impulse ) and participated in a session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach which produced the Money Jungle ( United Artists ) album.

Coltrane won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for the role.

Of the regular cast, only Coltrane and Tomlinson featured in " White Ghost " ( retitled " Lucky White Ghost " for some overseas markets ), which was set in Hong Kong.

" A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music ; Coltrane states: " Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you.

Eric Dolphy's work with Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Chico Hamilton, along with his solo work, helped to set the stage for free jazz in the music community.

American musicians like Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Milford Graves, and Pharoah Sanders integrated elements of the music of Africa, India, and the Middle East for a sort of World music-influenced free jazz.

The rendering of Blind Willie McTell's " Statesboro Blues " was a straight-ahead opener, the powerful " Whipping Post " ( with its famous 11 / 4 bass opening ) became the standard for an epic jam that never lost interest, while the ethereal-to-furious " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " invited comparisons to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

It resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected, along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series.

*" A Bushel and a Peck ", " Fugue for Tinhorns ", " I'll Know ", " If I Were A Bell " ( a favorite of Miles Davis, featured in recordings with John Coltrane ), " Luck Be a Lady Tonight ", " Sit Down, You're Rockin ' the Boat " and " I'll Know " from Guys and Dolls

This Saturday morning cartoon features the Duke boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize money which the Dukes hope to use to keep the family farm from being foreclosed by Boss Hogg.

** Arnold Levine & Frank Harkins ( art directors ) for Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis & John Coltrane