★★★★★
Depending on how you think about it, Ravi Coltrane was either blessed with inspiration or burdened by expectations when he was named after three such imposing musicians: his parents John and Alice Coltrane and Ravi Shankar...
- jazztimes.com
2012-09-04
★★★★★
Yes, is related to those Coltranes. His mother was , the legendary jazz pianist whose sweeping melodies injected ambient blots into the overtly abstract genre. His father, , was the iconic saxophonist whose 1965 album A Love Supreme is one of the most widely heralded classics of any ilk. So it isn't surprising that Ravi, the Coltranes' second son, would dabble in the family business...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
The second son of John and Alice Coltrane, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane was born two years before his father's death in 1967. Despite his imposing lineage, Coltrane's steady rise to prominence in the jazz world has been anything but conspicuous; notable stints as a sideman with Steve Coleman, Elvin Jones and Wallace Roney in the mid-1990s eventually led to a series of recording sessions for RCA, Columbia and Savoy in the new millennium...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-06-25
★★★★★
It's easy to imagine the double-takes that must have occurred when introductions were being made around New York in the early 1990s. "What'd you say your last name is, son?" Let's face it, if you're walking around with the name of a God, your last name is Coltrane and your first name is not John, and you're going to play the tenor saxophone, same as your old man, people are going to want to know what that's all about...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-06-25
★★★★★
Ravi Coltrane's Blue Note debut, Spirit Fiction, presents the saxophonist in a self-created environment of formal experimentation defined by multiple conceits and constraints. Coltrane's penchant for this type of thoughtful experimentation has been consistent over his career. With Spirit Fiction, however, he has taken the approach to a new level, deploying an array of recording techniques, compositional approaches, and "process" contexts...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-06-18
★★★★★
Strangely enough, producer Yasohachi "88" Itoh considered Ravi Coltrane too untrained to record him the first time that Itoh heard him. Now that Itoh is launching the Eighty-Eight's label, he has chosen Coltrane as one of the 4 musicians to promote in his first selection of releases. While each of the other 3 releases possesses its own noteworthy, and in some cases indelible, moments, Mad 6 is the most progressive of them all...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shine; First Circuit; A Still Life; Epistrophy; Amalgams; Narcined; One Wheeler Will; The Last Circuit; Before with After; For Turiya. Personnel: Ravi Coltrane: tenor saxophone; Luis Perdomo: piano; Drew Gress: acoustic bass; E. J. Strickland: drums; Charlie Haden: bass (10); Brandee Younger: harp (10)...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, he of the inescapable surname, is continuing to grow both as a musician and a person. His playing these days contains more maturity; a sense of exploration, combined with a sureness of attack and a brawny sound. The growing musical proficiency is documented on Blending Times (Savoy Jazz, 2009). Coltrane and his working band?pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Drew Gress and drummer E.J. Strickland?address a group of tunes both written and improvised on the spot...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
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