JAYFORCE

“I want to be the force which is truly for good.”
– John Coltrane in 1966, as told Frank Kofsky

Realness. Straight from November 1966. Frank Kofsky spending a day with the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, conversing as they rode about and made stops here and there in Huntington, New York. Coltrane had just turned 40. He would die from liver cancer less than a year later.

Coltrane talks about moving to the country, setting up to practice, connecting with the sound of an instrument, Malcolm X, music as means of expressing that state of society, and how he wanted to change the world.
– PBS Digital Studios

Enjoy the recorded conversation set to animation. Great stuff from PBS. Give thanks.

Read the rest of this entry »