Articles by Lewis Porter

Book Excerpts

Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist

by Lewis Porter
June 22, 2012

[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press, 2012), by saxophonist Dave Liebman, in conversation with Lewis Porter, author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (University of Michigan Press, 2000). In it, Liebman and Porter discuss the saxophonist's involvement in the loft scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s in New York City, and creation Free Life Communication with a group of like-minded musicians.This excerpt appears ...

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Opinion

An Open Letter From Lewis Porter

by Lewis Porter
May 21, 2004

This is a very belated response to Dr. C. O. Simpkins' critique, posted on AAJ in March 2003, of my book John Coltrane: His Life and Music (Univ of Michigan Press, 1998). As your readers may know, Dr. Simpkins, a physician, was the author of Coltrane: A Biography in 1975. His book, and one by J.C. Thomas, were the first Coltrane biographies to be published. For those of your readers who don't know me, I am a lifelong jazz educator ...