Coltrane Code
Bret PrimackThe Coltrane Code is a space where jazz, spirituality, and personal storytelling intersect to explore how John Coltrane’s music offers lessons for living with depth, clarity, and purpose.
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What Coltrane Heard in Silence
A meditation on John Coltrane’s relationship with silence as spiritual discipline — tracing how his withdrawals from performance produced his most radical music — set against the contrast between John Cage’s conceptual silence and Coltrane’...
My Friend John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins died last Monday at the age of 95, at his home in Woodstock, New York. He was the last living giant of the bebop generation, and now that generation is gone.
What you’re about to hear was recorded when Rollins could still si...
What Coltrane Believed About Sound as Healing
John Coltrane explicitly believed that music could heal the body and the spirit — a conviction he held not as metaphor but as a conclusion drawn from decades of study in Vedanta, acoustic physics, and ancient sound traditions. The sound hea...
Why Coltrane Remains A Hero and Why His Music Still Resonates
Bob Blumenthal was born in St. Louis in 1947, which means he came of age at precisely the right moment and in precisely the right city to have jazz get into his blood permanently. St. Louis was not Chicago or New York, but it had its own de...
What Made John Coltrane So Different
John Coltrane occupied a category of his own. Not simply as a saxophone player, though on that instrument alone he rewrote the technical and emotional possibilities so thoroughly that every serious player who came after him has had to recko...
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Journalist, filmmaker, and self-appointed major factotum, Bret plays a dangerous kazoo, writes sharper sentences, and believes art saves lives, aliens are real, and swing is not music but a moral position. Proceed accordingly.
Bret Primack has a Samurai’s Spirit and a bold, courageous heart — signs of his fearlessly creative life. An expat south of the border and a practicing Zen Buddhist, he believes the best is yet to come.
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