Articles by Larry Jaffe

The Fire in Coltrane’s Lungs

by Larry Jaffe
August 2, 2014

When the horn sounds the jazz begins Unity rediscovered A crisscross divergence of souls Coltrane steals the birthright of his heritage makes it into music The horn blasts loud and not so pure-- Life lives between the notes not at the end of the song Painfully hidden tones magically appear dragged out one by one by one breathless gasps of tonal agony Coltrane plays tears of subjugation between notes of joyous rhapsody

Miles Showed Me His Trumpet

by Larry Jaffe
January 15, 2005

Miles Davis lived around the block from me deep in the upper west side of Manhattan island.

He played like one man could be an island living for his horn that paid his daily bread living in this house made of gingerbread, on West 77th Street while I lived on West 76th.

I would see him every now and again going into that brownstone that his horn built. ...