This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Ravi Coltrane matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Ravi Coltrane.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Ravi Coltrane (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Ravi Coltrane's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Ravi Coltrane
- City/Place: Brooklyn, NY
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed Grammy™ nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. In the course of a twenty plus year career, Mr. Coltrane has worked as a sideman to many, recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others and founded a prominent independent record label, RKM.
Born in Long Island, the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los Angeles where his family moved after his father’s death in 1967. His mother, Alice Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi and it was he who encouraged Alice to return to performance and the recording studio after a long absence. Subsequently, Ravi produced and played on Alice Coltrane’s powerful, 'Translinear Light', which was released in 2004.
Ravi has released six albums as a leader. His latest, 'Spirit Fiction', was released in June of 2012 for the Blue Note label. Additional credits include performances as well as recordings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, The Blue Note 7, among others. He is a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman.
Ravi lives in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a fast paced touring, recording, composing and performance schedule. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island thecoltranehome.org and presides over important reissues of his parent’s recordings.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Management
AB Artists
Anna M. Sala
NYC Office: (212) 581-0612
NJ Office: (201) 928-0513
amsala@gmail.com
www.abartists.nyc
Worldwide Bookings (except Europe):
The Kurland Agency
173 Brighton Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Tel: (617) 254-0007
Fax: (617) 782-3577
agents@thekurlandagency.com
www.thekurlandagency.com
Europe Bookings:
Saudades Tourneen
Haus Nr. 369 a
A-6200 Rotholz
Austria
Tel: +43- (0)52 44/611 51
saudades@saudades.at
www.saudades.at
For information related to John or Alice Coltrane:
Jowcol Music
Tel: (818) 226-9991
foundation@johncoltrane.com
www.johncoltrane.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: ravicoltrane
- ▶ Instagram: ravicoltrane
- ▶ Website: http://ravicoltrane.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCLT7xXlqo0ZVbTo882foBjQ
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3lPcFtAVutHTlNU0Kkj45P
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1BMOMhs3hpzW6PblKlGZcU
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/2MxIo4CLDvare8cxX0J29B
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/6hzXkcYpPi3hGEfmj2q14w
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/5yj8fr40OGYwODHZKsRJZY
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/6k6kIbAm1lotktx367fxng
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
