Terry Gross
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23,838 appearances
402 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane was born a hundred years ago.
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The centennial is september twenty third, and the celebration includes concerts, album reissues, and a new book of Coltrane photos edited by my guest Ravi Coltrane, the son of John and Alice Coltrane.
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Ravi is a highly regarded tenor saxophone player and composer.
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who was recorded as a leader and in other bands.
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The book is titled Coltrane The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend.
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And it includes an introduction by Ravi and several essays, including ones by Patty Smith, Carlos Santana, Karim Abdul Jabbar, and Phil Lesh.
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The Coltrane family is organizing some of the centennial events and overseeing the estates of Ravi's parents, John and Alice Coltrane.
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John Coltrane is one of the most influential musicians in the history of jazz.
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He was famous for his early recordings in Myles Davis' band, his transcendent ballads from the Great American songbook, his modal music, his spiritual music, for popularizing the soprano saxophone and jazz with his recording of my favorite things, and
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And for avant garde free jazz like no one had heard before.
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To quote what the late jazz critic Francis Davis wrote in the New York Times.
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Full disclosure, Francis was my husband.
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Culturing has come to stand for a disciplined mindset, a desire for spiritual ecstasy, a vision of music as ritual, and of performance as a holy rite.
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That's R I T E.
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Depending on what a listener wants from it, Coltrane's music is a cry for black liberation, the soundtrack of a spiritual quest.
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A backdrop for tripping or the next evolutionary step for jazz after Bebop.
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Unquote.
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Alice Coltrane, Ravi's mother, was a pianist and harpist who played on John's final albums, recorded many albums under her own name, and
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Turned to Vedanta spirituality and founded an ashram in LA.
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Ravi Coltrane, welcome to Fresh Air.
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