Through a diverse collection of essays and interviews featuring leading Black media personalities, musicians and scholars, this volume presents the insiders' view - Black perspectives on Coltrane's powerful and lasting legacy viewed in contemporary times within the context of Black strivings for freedom.
CONTENTS
Foreword by T.J. Anderson
Preface by Leonard Brown
1. You Have To Be Invited - Leonard Brown
2. In His Own Words - Leonard Brown
3. John Coltrane and the Practice of Freedom - Herman Gray
4. John Coltrane As the Personification of Spirituality In Black Music - Anthony Brown
5. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Alice Coltrane and the Redefining of the Jazz Avante Garde - Tammy Kernodle
6. When Bar Walkers Preach: John Coltrane and The Crisis of the Black Intellectual - Tommy Lee Lott
7. Don't Let the Devil (Make You) Lose Your Joy: A Look at Late Coltrane - Salim Washington
8. The Spiritual Ethos in Black Music and its Quintessential Exemplar, John Coltrane - Emmett G. Price III
9. Somebody Please Say, Amen! - Eric Jackson
10. . Masters on A Master Introduction: Anthony Brown's and Leonard Brown's Interviews with Olly Wilson, Yusef Lateef and Billy Taylor
11. Conversation with Olly Wilson
12. . Conversation with Yusef Lateef
13. Conversation with Billy Taylor
14. Coda: George Allen Russell on John Coltrane's Legacy