By: Brian Berger

She knew her idiom, and never half-assed it.

By: Franklin Bruno

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

By: Franklin Bruno

“We ought to go into rehab, but we’re too stoned to care.”

By: Brian Berger

“We play unsegregated music.”

By: Brian Berger

“Ah, yes, the Hankenstein.”

By: Franklin Bruno

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

By: HILOBROW

“Lots of lowbrows [and] highbrows, I’m telling you the facts”

By: Brian Berger

The tenor saxophonist’s tone was a marvel of fluid sincerity.

By: Matthew Battles

The enigmatic uke player’s lonely, uncanny shtick.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

Traveling the spaceways, a massive starship with one passenger.

By: Sarah Weinman

Rat-a-tat consonants and sweet glissandi…

By: Brian Berger

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

By: Patrick Cates

He turned the jazz and funk scenes of the ’60s and ’70s upside-down.

By: Brian Berger

He challenged social and musical conventions.

By: Patrick Cates

Until 1964, JOHN COLTRANE (1926-67) was a virtuoso, blasting out bebop as wing-man to the likes of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and later leading his own hard bop lineups, where he is probably most […]