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John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Recording & Pressings

Recording the suite On December 9, 1964, at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio, John Coltrane’s classic quartet, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, tracked the four-part suite in a single, charged evening. Coltrane then explored an alternate “Acknowledgement” the next day with Archie Shepp and Art Davis, but the released album preserves the intimate quartet performance, including small postproduction touches like the doubled chant on “Acknowledgement” and a second […]

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Pete Cosey or the revolution of electric guitar

Pete Cosey (Chicago, October 9, 1943 – May 30, 2012) was a singular guitarist whose language fused South Side blues, psychedelic studio craft, experimental tunings, and pedal-driven orchestration. Revered among musicians and deep listeners, he stayed mostly off the mainstream grid, yet his impact marks him as a quiet architect of out‑there music. He began in an ebullient laboratory like Chicago in the late fifties, and he followed the transformations […]

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Jaco Pastorius: The Bright Comet That Burned Too Fast

Some bend the strings; Jaco Pastorius bent the entire instrument. He brought the electric bass out of hiding, stripped the frets off of it, and coaxed it to sing like a Coltrane horn or Mingus' heartbeat. With Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, or just soloing on stage with battered Jazz Bass in tow, he wasn't playing notes—he was painting with thunder. But like so many brilliant comets, Jaco's was turbulent. He […]

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Cosmic Frequencies: Happy Birthday, John Coltrane

Some birthdays are more than just a way of marking time. They are resonant birthdays, vibrating through the center of the universe. And so it is today, for today is saxophonist John Coltrane’s birthday, the man who turned sound into a language for the spirit to speak. His music has always seemed to be some sort of communication from elsewhere. ‘Giant Steps’ dashing across impossible harmonic ground, ‘A Love Supreme’ […]

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Goodbye, O Bruxo: Hermeto Pascoal, The Mad Sorcerer of Sound

Farewell to Hermeto (1936–2025) Hermeto Pascoal, Brazil’s beloved mago maluco (“mad wizard”), finally traded in his flute, pots, pans, pig squeals, and teapots for the Great Gig in the Sky on September 13, 2025, at the age of 89. Somewhere, the birds, frogs, and bus brakes of Rio are throwing a jam session in his honor — and you can bet RadioPeng would’ve been there with a mic to capture […]

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