John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews featuring many of the most eminent figures in Black American music and jazz studies and performance --Tommy Lee Lott Anthony Brown Herman Gray Emmett G. Price III Tammy Kernodle Salim Washington Eric Jackson TJ Anderson Yusef Lateef Billy Taylor Olly Wilson George Russell and a never before published interview with Elvin Jones -- the book examines the full spectrum of Coltrane's legacy. Each work approaches this theme from a different angle in both historical and contemporary contexts focusing on how Coltrane became a quintessential example of the universal and enduring qualities of Black American culture.