No score yet, be the first to add. A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a ...
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A little over 60 years ago, the editor-in-chief of DownBeat magazine asked John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy a deceptively simple question: What are you trying to do? He rephrased slightly: What are you ...
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The DownBeat editor, Don DeMicheal, printed this exchange in the April 1962 issue, as part of a fascinating article headlined "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Regular readers ...