John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60
The spiritual songs have continued in the black community into the twenty-first century and provided the foundation for the phenomenal development of gospel, blues, and jazz.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote... See more
Some music is just imagined
Much of this music was rooted in practices of the African ancestors, and it often reflected adaptations and innovations resulting from black American life experiences.