August 31, 2017
Amiri Baraka: Ennobled by Coltrane

October 8, 2007
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (1)
How did it feel that John Coltrane was “back,” I asked the drummer Roy Haynes a dozen years ago, when Impulse reissued his classics and...| More

October 8, 2007
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (2)
Amiri Baraka The poet Amiri Baraka (then: Leroi Jones) chanced to live over the Five Spot in Manhattan in the summer of 1957 when Coltrane...| More

October 8, 2007
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (3)
Alain Pacowski Alain Pacowski is a French-born, French-accented jazz guitarist, who grew up in Biarritz, the son of a professional horn player, hearing jazz as...| More

October 8, 2007
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (4)
Bill Pierce Bill Pierce played tenor saxophone for three years in into the early 80s with Art Blakey — before that with Stevie Wonder, and...| More

October 8, 2007
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (5)
Michael S. Harper, emeritus professor at Brown University and first poet laureate of Rhode Island, wrote the most famous of the many Coltrane poems, “Dear...| More