{"id":8588,"date":"2017-08-21T00:55:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:00:28","slug":"monday-recommendation-tommy-smith-on-coltrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/08\/monday-recommendation-tommy-smith-on-coltrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Tommy Smith On Coltrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fV7VjD\"><em>Embodying The Light: A Dedication To John Coltrane<\/em><\/a> (Spartacus Records)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Smith-Embodying....jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"196\" \/>Fifty years ago in the aftermath of John Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, it would have seemed unlikely that a definitive tribute to the saxophone master would someday come from a Scottish tenor player. Yet, so universal is Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presence in jazz and so deeply has Tommy Smith absorbed and incorporated his lessons that Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tribute album is an important achievement and a moving listening experience. His rhythm section perfectly conforms to Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conception of Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Coltrane-head-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"162\" \/> legacy. Young Peter Johnstone is the pianist, with bassist Calum Gourlay and the veteran drummer Sebastiaan de Krom. This is a first, a <em>Rifftides<\/em> Monday Recommendation with video, but it is unusual to have video of such quality as this from the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Glasgow studio, The Quay. Here are Smith and his quartet on BBC television with four pieces from <em>Embodying The Light,<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSmith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transformation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dear Lord,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gershwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Summertime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Naima.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B71s6AznttQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The CD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nine pieces also include Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Resolution,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d plus Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title tune and its alter-ego \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Embodying The Darkness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Smith, Embodying The Light: A Dedication To John Coltrane (Spartacus Records) Fifty years ago in the aftermath of John Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, it would have seemed unlikely that a definitive tribute to the saxophone master would someday come from a Scottish tenor player. Yet, so universal is Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presence in jazz and so deeply has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}