Chasin' the Trane John Coltrane First Edition JC Thomas Article Laid-In insert
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Chasin' the Trane John Coltrane First Edition JC Thomas Article Laid-In insert. Listed here is a hardcover first edition of Chasin' the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane by J.C. Thomas (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973) with laid-in related staple-bound article "John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Jazz Improvisation as Composition" by Lewis Porter. Stapled to the back of the article is a letter to the editor of the publishing journal dated February 3, 1986 regarding corrections to the article. Both the book and laid-in article age-toned. From the dust jacket: "J. C. Thomas traces John Coltrane’s life and career from his North Carolina childhood through his apprenticeship under Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, culminating in the saxophonist’s classic quartet that played to steadily increasing audiences throughout America, England, and Japan. The author has drawn on the recollections of those who knew Coltrane best—boyhood friends, band members like Elvin Jones, spiritual mentors like Ravi Shankar, and the women who loved him. Chasin’ The Trane is the story of a man who struggled against drug addiction, studied African and Eastern music and philosophy, admired Einstein’s expanding universe and the shimmering sounds a harp makes, and left behind the enduring legacy of a master musician who was also a beautiful man." J. C. Thomas, a kinsman of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, makes his home in Manhattan, where he writes for the New York Times, Down Beat, Village Voice, and hosts a weekly show, “Talking with Thomas,” over TelePrompter Cable TV. Bookleggers is Miami's first and only free book store. We are a non profit and sell our more rare and odd books to fund daily operations.
