Coltrane BOOKS & IDEAS

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: October 27, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Pankaj Mishra The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
10-27-2007
Coltrane BOOKS & IDEAS
Byline: Pankaj Mishra The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

Coltrane

The Story of a Sound
By Ben Ratliff

250 pages. $24. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Reviewed by Pankaj Mishra

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'I regret Coltrane's death," the English poet Philip Larkin wrote in 1967, "as I regret the death of any man, but I can't conceal the fact that it leaves in jazz a vast, blessed silence." In his last years, John Coltrane, who began his career with a navy band, had moved through modal ...

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