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Coltrane Code

Bret Primack

The 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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Latest Issues

Coltrane and the Audience

In this clip, legendary saxophonist Joe Lovano discusses the relationship between artists and their audience, using John Coltrane as a powerful example.

Lovano reflects on how musicians communicate through their work, how they balance...

6 days ago
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Joe Lovano On Coltrane's Final Music

In this rare conversation, legendary saxophonist Joe Lovano reflects on the final phase of John Coltrane’s musical journey.

Lovano discusses what Coltrane was searching for in his last recordings, the spiritual and artistic forces behind t...

13 days ago
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Denny Zeitlin - "I Didn't Like Coltrane When I First Heard Him.

Denny Zeitlin is a jazz pianist who has spent his entire career running two full professions simultaneously rather than choosing one: he’s also a practicing clinical psychiatrist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF, a position he’s...

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Coltrane's Final Year Was Not A Failure

Coltrane’s final year is typically framed as artistic collapse, but the evidence — from the Olatunji Concert to his own stated intentions — suggests the opposite: a musician who reached precisely where he was headed, abandoning the aestheti...

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The Witness at the Threshold

Rashied Ali was not a sideman who preserved John Coltrane’s legacy — he was the drummer who made Coltrane’s final and most radical music possible, accompanying him past meter, past structure, and past the boundaries of what jazz audiences w...

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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.

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