The Last Trane To Africa – Ian Dogole

Some tributes look to the past. Others, like The Last Trane To Africa, seek an origin.

Percussionist and composer Ian Dogole proposes a profoundly Afrocentric re-reading of John Coltrane’s legacy—not through imitation, but through the spiritual expansion of his music.

Far from recreating the language of traditional jazz, the album shifts the center toward percussion: udu, djembes, kalimba, and African talking drums dialogue with saxophones, piano, and double bass to build a sound that feels simultaneously ancestral and contemporary.

Pieces like Africa, Tunji, or Dahomey Dance function as portals. Echoes of A Love Supreme run through the record not as direct references, but as intention: to elevate, to connect, to transcend.

The result is an experience that overflows the musical. A journey in which jazz returns to one of its deepest roots and John Coltrane’s work is reimagined as a bridge between continents, eras, and states of the spirit.