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Despite a comparatively brief profession (he first found notice like a sideman at age 29 in 1955, formally launched a single profession at 33 in 1960, and was deceased at 40 in 1967), saxophonist John Coltrane was being among the most important, & most controversial, numbers in jazz. It appears …

Among the pioneers of jazz-rock — possibly the pioneer within the ears of some — Larry Coryell deserves a particular put in place the annals books. He brought what amounted to some almost alien sensibility to jazz guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, reducing build, and phrasing and note-bending …