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Coltrane: His Recorded Sources, Part 2 of 3: "Dahomey Dance" & My Thoughts About "Africa" (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, there’s another gift for you at the bottom—three complete recordings that are excerpted in the essay, and a detailed booklet about…
Oct 3
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Coltrane: His Recorded Sources, Part 1 of 3: "India," & The "Water Drum" Mystery (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers get an Indian chant recording, with an extensive booklet about Indian music, below.)
Sep 26
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Ron McClure: Seeing Miles Davis and Meeting Coltrane—An Extra Chapter
[The well-known bassist Ron McClure is my friend and neighbor on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Aug 15
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Sonny Rollins, In Memoriam: The Rarest Print Interview
With the recent passing of Sonny Rollins (1930-2026), we have lost one of the great masters in the history of music.
Jul 25
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A +Bonus For Paying Subscribers: Rollins, Shorter, Brecker, Many Others Discuss Their Idols in Print
For Paying Subscribers, attached to the Coltrane/Sonny Fortune post were a few relevant pages of artists discussing their idols, from a special Downbeat…
Jan 21
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John Coltrane and Sonny Fortune Performed in Philadelphia, September 3, 1966 (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, At the bottom you’ll find two pages from the special DownBeat issue of July 2004, where Mike Brecker, Jim Hall, Percy Heath and Von…
Jan 17
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Elvin Jones: Question & Answer Session on Audio, 1998, 1 of 3—Improved Sound
On February 9, 1998, Elvin Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004), then 70 years old, was a guest artist at the Manhattan School of Music.
Jun 28, 2025
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John Coltrane's "Practice Buddies," From Benny Golson to Pat DeRosa
(For my many previous posts with new information on Coltrane, see the index.)
Jun 15, 2025
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Amiri Baraka Talks With Me & Grad Students About Jazz, Dr. King, Malcolm X, & More, 1 of 2
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) was a celebrated poet, a playwright, a founder of the Black Arts Movement, and a prolific and influential writer on jazz.
Jan 20, 2025
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Coltrane: A Love Supreme, 9—Bassists on "Acknowledgement," All Takes
In my last essay on A Love Supreme, we listened closely to what Coltrane and Archie Shepp played on Acknowledgement.” (See the Index on the home page…
Sep 1, 2024
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For Dr. King: Coltrane, Hidden Texts, and "Alabama," 2—Coltrane's Text
Last time I gave you a very detailed introduction to Coltrane’s uses of texts, including “hidden” texts, in his music during 1964 and ‘65.
Jan 20, 2024
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For Dr.King: Coltrane, Hidden Texts, and "Alabama," 1—Background Information
It’s been over 60 years since Coltrane’s profound recording of “Alabama,” and in recent years I have made some progress toward understanding it.
Jan 15, 2024
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