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Song Of Praise
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Some Notes:
This book was first assembled in 1987
in commemoration of the birthday
of John Coltrane
Born in Hamlet, North Carolina,
September 23, 1926
Died July 17, 1967
& to mark the passing of 20 years
since his spirit moved on
to some higher plane.
With two exceptions, each of these works
is titled after a song or an album
recorded by John Coltrane.
For your listening pleasure, & to provide
the proper sound track for this book,
these sources will yield the appropriate music:
some other blues & like Sonny,
from Coltrane Jazz
Atlantic Records (recorded 1959)
blues to elvin & blues to you
from Coltrane Plays The Blues
Atlantic Records (recorded 1960)
spiritual from
Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard
Impulse Records (recorded 1961)
the drum thing
from Crescent
Impulse Records (recorded 1964)
Welcome & Vigil
from Kulu Se Mama
Impulse Records (recorded 1965)
Coltrane Live At Birdland, A Love Supreme &
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Impulse Records (recorded 1964 & 1965)
Song of Praise
from The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Impulse Records (recorded 1965)
Consequences
from Meditations
Impulse Records (recorded 1966).
The exceptions are Homage To John Coltrane
which is set to music from Coltrane
Impulse Records (recorded 1962)
& I Talk With The Spirits,
a Rahsaan Roland Kirk title from
I Talk With The Spirits on Mercury Records
Most of the work in this book
has previously been published
in these books & magazines:
Homage To John Coltrane, blues to elvin,
some other blues, like Sonny, the drum thing
in This Is Our Music (Artists Workshop Press, 1965)
Song of Praise & The John Coltrane
Quartet Plays in Fire Music:A Record
(Artists Workshop Press, 1966)
Welcome, Vigil, & Consequences
in Meditations: A Suite For John Coltrane
(Artists Workshop Press, 1967)
Song of Praise was also issued
as a holiday broadside/card by the
Artists Workshop Press, December 1965
Coltrane Live At Birdland & A Love Supreme
were record reviews for Jazz magazine,
September 1964 & April 1965
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
was a record review for Sounds & Fury,
October 1965
spiritual was published by Pat Smith
in Notus magazine, Ann Arbor,
Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 1986)
spiritual & consequences also appear in
We Just Change the Beat : Selected Poems
(Ridgeway Press, 1988)
,The Heavyweight Champion was published
as a record review in the Heartland Journal,
Chicago, Fall 1995
A duet performance of spiritual
with Marion Brown has been released on a 10 LP,
Friday the 13th, by Alive Records (1995)
& the first nine poems were recorded in performance
by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars
at Kaldi's Coffeehouse in New Orleans on September 20, 1994
as a homage to John Coltrane
& issued on the CD titled Full Moon Night
(Total Energy Records, 1995)
This book is dedicated to Charles Moore
BIG CHIEF PRODUCTIONS
645 Griswold, Suite 56.
Detroit, Michigan 48226
Website @ http://www.johnsinclair.us
Song of Praise (C) 2003, .2005 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
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