Listen: 'A Passion for Bach and Coltrane' with Imani Winds

Jeff Scott’s new Grammy-nominated oratorio is full of inspiration from two giants of music — Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Passion for Bach and Coltrane with the Imani Winds is an innovative and surprising confluence of classical and jazz. Scott is the founding horn player of the Imani Winds, and along with the Harlem Jazz Quartet, jazz soloists and spoken word by A.B. Spellman, Passion for Bach and Coltrane offers an intimate perspective on the group’s most personal recording in its 25-year history. Listen now with host Toyin Spellman-Diaz.

Playlist

Hour 1

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Variation No. 1, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano

• A.B. Spellman: Dear John, Part 1, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — A.B. Spellman, spoken  

• Jeff Scott: Aria, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith 

• A.B. Spellman: Dear John, Part 2, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — A.B. Spellman, spoken

• Jeff Scott: Psalm, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

• Jeff Scott: Resolution, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

• Jeff Scott: Out of Nazareth, Part 1, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Variation No. 2, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano

• Jeff Scott: Out of Nazareth, Part 2, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

Intermission 

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Variation No. 29, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano 

Hour 2

• John Coltrane: Acknowledgement, from A Love Supreme — John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Variation No. 4, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano

• A.B. Spellman: Among the Things I Must Have Known, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — A.B. Spellman

• Jeff Scott: Interlude, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez, and Neal Smith

• Jeff Scott: A Hug for Gonzalo, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Variation No. 13, from Goldberg Variations — Glenn Gould, piano

• Jeff Scott: Variation No. 13 from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith

• Jeff Scott: Acknowledgement, from Passion for Bach and Coltrane — Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Alex Brown, Edward Perez and Neal Smith