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 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...
John Coltrane Talks About Life and Music
John Coltrane arrived in Japan in the summer of 1966 carrying a lifelong suspicion of words. He had always believed that music was the thing itself, not a subject for conversation. Liner notes, interviews, explanations, the whole apparatus...
What Coltrane Practiced
Most people think John Coltrane practiced scales.
That is technically true in the same way saying that monks “sit quietly” is technically true. It names the surface activity while missing the interior reality entirely.
Coltrane did not me...
What Was The Question Bob Blumenthal Asked John Coltrane
Jazz writer extraordinaire Bob Blumenthal saw the John Coltrane live in one of their final appearances at Boston’s Jazz Workshop in December of 1965. By then, the working group was augmented by Pharoah Sanders on tenor and Rashied Ali and d...
Coltrane and Shepp at the Down Beat Jazz Festival, August 1965
Photo: Ray Flerlage, courtesy of the Chicago Historical Museum
By the time John Coltrane and Archie Shepp shared a bill at the Down Beat Jazz Festival in Chicago in August of 1965, the music had already changed. Ascension had been cut earl...
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Journalist, filmmaker, and self-appointed Minister of Swing. he plays a mean kazoo, writes a meaner sentence, and believes art saves lives, aliens are real, and swing is a moral position.
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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