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Guardian: Sam Rivers
[The Guardian] - Like his saxophone contemporaries John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, he was a fearless mould-breaker and explorer of new forms who was nonetheless profoundly influenced by that most fundamental of black American musical forms, the blues.
Google News: The Passing Of A Prophet - Speaking With Gil Scott-Heron in 1986
[Sabotage Times] - He led me to the Last Poets and Sweet Honey In The Rock, made me listen to Billie Holiday and John Coltrane and Nina Simone, and taught me to read Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin and Steve Biko's I Write What I Like.
Guardian: The rise of the super-deluxe box set
[The Guardian] absolutely every note John Coltrane ever recorded in a jazz shop in Paris or somewhere, and he suddenly got it," offers Andy Jackson, one of the remastering engineers responsible for the Immersion sets, by way of explaining the band's volte-face.
Guardian: Brad Meldhau: The Art of the Trio Recordings – review
[The Guardian] - By Volume Two (live at the Village Vanguard) the group has developed an almost telepathic intuitiveness that makes the underlying structures seem almost incidental; the version of John Coltrane's uptempo Countdown here is mind-boggling.
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