Coltrane - the story of a sound
Excellent...Ratliff guides us through the thickets of the jazz scene with precision, delicacy and an absolute absence of polemic.
Author: Ben Ratliff
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John Coltrane, who died aged 40 in 1967, is one of half of a dozen truly fundamental contributors to the history of jazz. No one - not Armstrong or Ellington, nor even Charlie Parker -inspires quite the same mystique or continuing intensity of fascination and influence. In Coltrane, the New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer.
About the author
Ben Ratliff is an American journalist, music critic and author. Ratliff is the son of an English mother and an American father, growing up in London and in Rockland County, New York. From 1996 to 2016, he wrote about pop music and jazz for The New York Times
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