Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote mus... See more
Some music is just imagined
for some he is a threat, for others he is musically illegible and therefore beyond comprehension. For still others, this is the Coltrane of pure sincerity—of pulse, energy, and sound.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
“It is no accident,” says Early, that during the time of Coltrane’s greatest period as an artist, from 1960 to 1967, Martin Luther King was talking about redemptive love and sacrifice as a solution to the American race problem, many American artists and intellectuals, particularly after 1965 were going “Oriental” and turning to the East for inspira
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The final period of his short life finds Coltrane pushing against both of these prior periods while drawing deeply on both. The period from 1965 to 1967 finds Coltrane in search of a new language, a new vocabulary of rhythmic and sonic possibilities. He draws these increasingly from world cultures and his own southern background. This, of course, i
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