John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

ISBN-13: 9780195328929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str.

Leonard Brown

Opis

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews featuring many of the most eminent figures in Black American music and jazz studies and performance --Tommy Lee Lott, Anthony Brown, Herman Gray, Emmett G. Price III, Tammy Kernodle, Salim Washington, Eric Jackson, TJ Anderson, Yusef Lateef, Billy Taylor, Olly Wilson, George Russell, and a never before published interview with Elvin Jones -- the book examines the full spectrum of Coltrane's legacy. Each work approaches this theme from a different angle, in both historical and contemporary contexts, focusing on how Coltrane became a quintessential example of the universal and enduring qualities of Black American culture.

Recenzje

An insightful collection.

O autorze

Leonard Brown is a professional saxophonist, composer and arranger, an ethnomusicologist and associate professor of African American Studies and Music at Northeastern University in Boston. He is a Ford Fellow (postdoctoral) and the recipient of distinguished scholarship awards. He served as senior consulting historian and principal ethnomusicologist for the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO, the first national jazz museum in the USA and is co-author of Kansas City and All That's Jazz. Brown is co-founder and producer of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert, the world's oldest annual performance tribute to Coltrane, established in Boston in 1977.