John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's

John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960's by Frank Kofsky. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780873488570.

John Coltrane’s role in spearheading innovations in jazz that were an expression of the new cultural and political ferment that marked the rise of the mass struggle for Black rights. “The author defends the thesis that the new Black music of the sixties expresses all the resentment of the ghettos and is in fact the resonant illustration of the life of Blacks in an urban environment.” —Jazz Around