FYI Washington, DC ☛ The Brandee Younger Jazz Harp Quartet to Play at Bohemian Caverns 5/31 & 6/1!

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NYC Harpist Brandee Younger brings her swingin’ jazz harp quartet to DC for a rare appearance. Younger will play at Bohemian Caverns with young heavyweights EJ Strickland on drums, Dezron Douglas on bass and Stacy Dillard on saxophones – each of whom are bandleaders in their own right.

Heavily influenced by Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, Younger has developed a beautiful, fresh sound all her own. Equally at home with classical music and jazz, Brandee Younger emerged from the same Long Island music milieu as her elder contemporaries Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, Public Enemy, EPMD, and Rakim, and has incorporated hip-hop and other diverse genres into her musical vocabulary.

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Newly Discovered and Previously Unissued Alternate Takes of John Coltrane: The Complete Sun Ship Session [August 1965]!

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Mosaic Records is set to release The Complete Sun Ship Session which includes newly discovered and previously unissued alternate takes from one of the final studio sessions by the John Coltrane Quartet. The three LP set will be released May 21 and is also being made available on a two CD set through Verve Records on April 16.

Photo Credit: Chuck Stewart
Sun Ship, recorded August 26, 1965, captures one of the last sessions by the Classic John Coltrane Quartet (Coltrane, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones). It comes at the culmination of a year in which Coltrane arguably reached his creative peak, a year rich in such masterworks. The Sun Ship album, though, was not issued until 1971, one of several Coltrane albums issued by Impulse Records after his death. And Sun Ship was, like many jazz albums, the product of editing between takes, a process overseen by John's widow Alice.

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