Impulse !, American historical publisher, was a haven for much of the most daring and seminal jazz of the 1960s. John Coltrane was forever attached to it. Now, celebrating 60 years in the shadow of the Black Lives Matter movement, history is resumed.
n December 1963, in an episode of the television program Jazz Casual, on National Educational Television, John Coltrane and his mythical quartet debuted a theme of an intensity and emotional density difficult to qualify - even for those four who, together, did nothing short of it. of the prodigious. It was music that seemed to weep at every measure, every note by Coltrane in a copious lament in funeral progress, piano, contrabass and drums sorry, slow, then pulling out for a little ace ...
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