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Tag: The Music of John Coltrane

  • Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Jazz With a Norwegian Accent

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    Image via Wikipedia From the Times: Avant-garde jazz has almost always had its sacramental side. There’s a reason for the devotion that some listeners bring to the mid-1960s music of John Coltrane, or to the output of his fellow saxophonist Albert Ayler. The spirituality in these performances wasn’t subtext or suggestion; it radiated out from…