In a blog post from May this year, I presented Jack Cooke's Late Trane retrospective from 1970. Link below. This time it's a feature written by John Norris, from the May 1968 edition of Canada's Coda magazine, which became a Coltrane memorial issue. If you are interested in a contemporary take on Coltrane's records from The John Coltrane Quartet Plays to Expression, read on. Late Trane Retrospective From 1970 John Norris was a regular contributor to many jazz publications, including Coda, was jazz critic for the Globe and Mail, and was a jazz music host on Canadian radio and television. THE FINAL LEGACY by John Norris Until very recently, jazz musicians were static as artists. Every musician evolved a style and remained true to that, with minor variations, for the remainder of his career. In this sense the jazz musician paralleled the course of practitioners in other art forms prior to the Twentieth Century. Today it is much different. Musicians are trans forming thei...
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