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Coltrane BOOKS & IDEAS
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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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A rare lineage A black family boasts early Mass. roots
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...drummer in the Revolutionary War named Barzillai Lew. "It started . . . " she says as...passed the musical skill to him, and Barzillai (pronounced BAR-zeal-ya) passed...in a 1943 piano composition entitled "Barzillai Lou." Few black American families can...
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History meets reality Deep roots don't solve identity dilemma
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...musical pioneers. That he was a direct descendant of Barzillai Lew, a free-born black man who had fought at...Bonitto. The two women would tell him stories about Barzillai Lew and Barzillai's father, Primus, who was also a musician and...
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Amateur genealogists trace history of N. England blacks
Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner
; ...Primus Black, Epheram Blackman and Barzillai Lew, a member of the second generation...composed a piano piece in his honor. Barzillai Lew would also fight at Bunker Hill...descendant of the extraordinary patriot Barzillai Lew, and seventh generation descendant...
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Echoes of the Underground Railroad
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...great-grandfather, Adrastus Lew. He was the grandson of Barzillai Lew, a black musician who in 1775 fought in the Battle of...participate in the abolitionist movement, some years earlier Barzillai Lew's daughter, Lucy Dalton, and her husband, Thomas...
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Black input largely ignored in Revolutionary War
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The
; ...Whitmore stood at Lexington and Concord; that Lemuel Haynes and Barzillai Lew stood side by side with Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain...think of the Black Green Mountain Boys like Lemuel Haynes or Barzillai Lew storming those stone walls. Yet they were there." And...
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Family Trees With Roots That Run Deep
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...sheet music by Mozart. It has been suggested that it's Barzillai Lew, a private in the Revolutionary War, a fifer at the...in 1943. The painting, however, probably portrays one of Barzillai's sons because of the youthful look. The family produced...
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A binding chord Through centuries, Lews united by love of music
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...country was struggling to find its own identity. Descended from Barzillai Lew, who was born a free man in Groton, Mass., and who...long ago by its patriarch. After the Revolutionary War, Barzillai Lew, his wife and 13 children formed a musical band known...
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DESCENDANTS MARK LEGACY OF BLACK PATRIOTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...grave markers, is the final resting place of black patriot Barzillai Lew. A freeman and a cooper, or barrelmaker, Lew was among...and Ashe's aunt, Phyllis Lew, are among those who hope Barzillai's burial site will be marked. "It's American history...
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Freedom Trail(R) Foundation and HP Hood Give Boston Residents First Taste of New Freedom Trail Mix Ice Cream.
PR Newswire
; ...the City of Boston, along with actors costumed as 18th-century Colonial figures Hannah Howard, Elizabeth Wells Adams, Barzillai Lew and Judith Sergeant Murray, will distribute the ice cream samples. "We're so pleased to bring Freedom Trail Mix Ice...
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NEW FACE ON THE REVOLUTION STUDY COUNTS MANY MORE PATRIOTS OF COLOR IN WAR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...After Johonnot's discharge, he moved to Goffstown N.H., where he later became a highway surveyor. Bunker Hill soldier Barzillai Lew of Chelmsford and Dracut played the fife and drum and was a cooper, or barrelmaker, by trade. Before the Revolutionary...
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