Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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 Whitney Balliett in The New...

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 and Thelonius Monk had a...

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 the sound of America. He...

Bill Pierce Bill Pierce played tenor saxophone for three years in into the early 80s with Art Blakey — before that with Stevie Wonder, and with the drummer Tony Williams...

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 John, Dear Coltrane,” a year...