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
Jazz Video Guy
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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