Coltrane - Ben Ratliff

not Armstrong, Ellington or Monk, nor even Charlie Parker
inspires quite the same mystique or continuing intensity of fascination. No young saxophonist of the past forty years has been able to escape his influence, and few musicians have had their work so obsessively documented on record.This fantastic book is the first book to do justice to this great and controversial musical pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of coltrane's life Ratliff does something incredibly valuable - he writes about the saxophonist's unique sound.