I wrote about how John Coltrane's endorsement of other artists (Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown) actually yielded better art than his own final albums, for the Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2026/09/musi...
Coltrane: The Final Years | The Brooklyn Rail
In the last three years of John Coltrane’s life, he did a tremendous amount of work that testified to the importance of the avant-garde/“New Thing” movement in jazz.
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