JOHN COLTRANE • I See Your Face Before Me • 1958

     

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JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET • Lonnie's Lament • 1964

      

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Quick! Spell ZAILA AVANT-GARDE! The first African American contestant to win National Spelling Bee is now aiming for Harvard, the NBA and NASA

 

David Williams | CNN

(CNN) Zaila Avant-garde wasn't focused on her place in history on Thursday when she became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 93 editions of the competition.

JOHN COLTRANE • I'm Old Fashioned • 1957

      

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JOHN COLTRANE • Out Of This World • 1962

    

In it... but not of it... until the day we are taken out of it...

The JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET • Wish I Knew • 1962

...but I'm just a man too...

📺 Watch: MICHAEL JORDAN and JOHN COLTRANE • The DOMINANT Duo 🏀

Both of these men completely dominated their arts ~ this is one of my all-time favorite videos on YouTube ~ an absolutely brilliant mashup masterpiece... AMEN!

The JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET • LIVE in Belgium • 1965

So grateful to God for inspiring me to take this man quite seriously about 25 years ago... it has really prepared me spritually, emotionally and intellectually for these times... blessings to all...

THE JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET • Wise One • 1964

Indeed...

JOHN COLTRANE • Afro Blue • LIVE in Stockholm • 1963

A beautiful, hard-swinging live version of this classic tune...

Reflections on 9/11 • I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU • God, John Coltrane, New York City And My Journey As A 21st Century Jazz Musician

It was early on the first day of Spring 2001, when I got on a Greyhound bus and left the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area which had been my primary home since birth nearly 30 years earlier.

It was an extremely momentous and pivotal point in my life - and this very well planned journey I had embarked upon to travel by land across this entire country for the next three days straight to my destination in New York City had many deep layers of meaning and importance for me.

Somebody Found John Coltrane’s Lost Album Blue World and We’re All Better for It

Jay Connor  | THE ROOT

John Coltrane is kind of a big deal.

Over the course of a career that spanned over two decades, the legendary composer and saxophonist churned out classic albums like 1957’s Blue Train and 1964’s A Love Supreme, all while trying to kick a vicious heroin addiction and expanding the boundaries of what we knew jazz to be.

And now, over a half-century since his untimely demise, we’ll be receiving a posthumous gift in the form of an unreleased album thanks to Coltrane’s longtime record label, Impulse! Records.

If you were going to be placed on a deserted island and could take ONLY ONE whole album of music... what would YOURS be?

You know... I've never been one who really entertains those seemingly endless "G.O.A.T." debates about who the "greatest of all time" supposedly is -- especially in music and sports, what with all the straight up legends and unbelievably skilled and talented people who have done both over the course of human history -- not to mention how subjective people's opinions are about such things.

Even when someone asks a question like: "...if you were going to be stuck on a deserted island (lol... that had power and a record player as all deserted islands do, right?) ... what ONE record album by ONE single artist (or group) would you choose to bring if you could only bring one and ONLY one with you?" ... and I begin to try to tell myself, "No. That's not even possible to decide and I won't even go there..." but... the question still lingers... unanswered... or is it?