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John Coltrane: The Ultimate Blue Train

by Chris M. Slawecki
My soft spot in jazz has always been the blues, and artists who frequently employed blues tonalities--Oliver Nelson, Yusef Lateef, Mingus, Monk. John Coltrane’s name doesn’t often come up in discussions of the blues. Other aspects of Coltrane’s music--like the sense of energy in his playing, of intuition and unquenchable fire--are discussed, but rarely the way ...