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Amiri Baraka

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Amiri Baraka

Elusive: The documentary Chasing Trane fails to catch the full John Coltrane.
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Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak

Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised

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