All told, and even more so than on his other albums, the focus on this LP is on Coltrane.

Although Coltrane's quintets with Dolphy ( including the Village Vanguard and Africa / Brass sessions ) are now legendary, they originally provoked Down Beat magazine to brand Coltrane and Dolphy's music as ' anti-jazz '.

*" 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

Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by Down Beat magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe the new, unique improvisational style of John Coltrane.

In " Trane on the Track ", an article published on October 16, 1958 in Down Beat magazine, Coltrane spoke to Ira Gitler about the sheets of sound, telling him, " Now it is not a thing of beauty, and the only way it would be justified is if it becomes that.

Harris has cited Discharge circa 1979-1984, Disorder, Chaos UK, Siege, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Swans circa 1983-1995, Cocteau Twins, Membranes, Public Image Limited, Zoviet France, Nurse with Wound, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, old school and darkside jungle, drum & bass circa 1993-1996, early Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist, Jon Hassell, Miles Davis up to 1975, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Moritz Von Oswald and Berlin Dub Experimentalists, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, minimal and hard techno, John Zorn, electroacoustic and musique concrète, Found Sounds, Japanese hardcore bands Kuro and Gai ( also known as Swankys ), Celtic Frost, Death Strike, Genocide, Repulsion, Death, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Showbiz and A. G., A Tribe Called Quest as prominent inspirations.

Davis persuaded Coltrane to play with the group on one final European tour in the spring of 1960.

* In 1960, the saxophonist John Coltrane recorded a jazz version of " My Favorite Things " from The Sound of Music whose rich modal improvisations proved germane.

Giant Steps is the fifth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane as leader, released in 1960 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1311.

Coltrane continued his explorations on the 1960 album Giant Steps, and expanded upon the substitution cycle in his compositions " Giant Steps " and " Countdown ", the latter of which is a reharmonized version of Miles Davis's " Tune Up.

During a 1960 interview, Coltrane described Blue Train as his favorite album of his own up to that point.

Although he signed John Coltrane for Impulse in 1960, Taylor left the following year to accept a job with Verve Records.

" Giant Steps " is a jazz composition by John Coltrane, first appearing as the first track on the album of the same name ( 1960 ).

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.

In March 1960, while on tour in Europe, Miles Davis purchased a soprano saxophone for Coltrane.

After leaving the Davis band, for his first regular bookings starting at New York's Jazz Gallery club in the summer of 1960 Coltrane assembled the first version of John Coltrane Quartet, the line-up settling to McCoy Tyner on piano, Steve Davis on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums by the fall.

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

Coltrane was little known at the time, in spite of earlier collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, and Johnny Hodges.

Bostic was pleased with the sessions, which highlight his total mastery of the blues but they also foreshadowed musical advances that were later evident in the work of John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy.

Bostic was influenced by Sidney Bechet and ( according to James Moody ) John Coltrane was in turn influenced by Bostic.

Working with Bostic was like attending a university of the saxophone. When Coltrane played with Bostic, I know he learned a lot.

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

Coltrane later said of this criticism: " they made it appear that we didn't even know the first thing about music (...) it hurt me to see get hurt in this thing.

Magma's music is also highly influenced by jazz saxophone player John Coltrane, and Vander has said that " it is still Coltrane who actually gives me the real material to work on, to be able to move on.

And John Coltrane, for me, carried this more foreword into … I want to use the word “ world music ” but in terms of music from “ third world countries ”.

In 2010 pianist Vijay Iyer ( who was chosen as " Jazz Musician of the Year 2010 " by the Jazz Journalists Association ) said: “ To me, Steve is as important as Coltrane.

" I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Black Flag, Swans, Miles Davis, Diamanda Galas, The Gun Club, Einstürzende Neubauten, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane records.

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.

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.

The prevailing style of the group was a development of the Davis experience in the previous years — Davis playing long, legato, and essentially melodic lines, while Coltrane, who during these years emerged as a leading figure on the musical scene, contrasted by playing high-energy solos.

Coltrane then departed to form his classic quartet, although he returned for some of the tracks on Davis ' 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

The series is centered on a criminal psychologist ( or " cracker "), Eddie " Fitz " Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane.

Idle received good critical notices appearing in projects written and directed by others – such as Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1989 ), alongside Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ) and in Casper ( 1995 ).

The Calvi affair also inspired the comedy film The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) in which a naive priest, played by Robbie Coltrane is unexpectedly made Pope and takes on a mafia dominated Vatican.

Included on these sessions was tenor saxophonist John Coltrane who, throughout the 1960s, would explore the possibilities of modal improvisation more deeply than any other jazz artist.

Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.

Dolphy's mother, Sadie, who had fond memories of her son practicing in the studio by her house, gave instruments that Dolphy had bought in France but never played to Coltrane, who subsequently played the flute and bass clarinet on several albums before his own death in 1967.

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.

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.

( with Coltrane recorded 1957, released in 1993 on Blue Note )

* Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ( 1957, released 2005 on Blue Note.