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Coming September 23 on Amazon: How John Coltrane Changed Me: A Jazz Journey

This deeply personal memoir traces how Coltrane’s music transformed my life—from a suburban teenager tripping on “A Love Supreme” in 1970 to a jazz journalist, filmmaker, and creator of the Jazz Video Guy channel.

Through five decades of American jazz culture, I chronicle intimate conversations with Sonny Rollins, Billy Taylor, Sun Ra, and more. I explore how Coltrane’s discipline shaped my writing, how Buddhist meditation rewired my listening, and the kitchen at the Village Vanguard became a classroom on integrity.

This isn’t a typical music biography. It’s a meditation on creativity, aging, and authenticity in a noisy world. It spans the analog age, the dot-com era (Jazz Central Station), and the rise of YouTube, where my videos have reached 50 million views. Coltrane’s sound guided me through it all.

In the final chapters, I reflect from Guanajuato, Mexico, where I finally found the silence between the notes.

This book is for anyone who’s ever been changed by music

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@sedaghatreza1184

Have yet to read the book but Coltrane has similarly affected me in so many ways since the early 60's. His otherworldly, divine and spiritual nature of his music is awe inspiring

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