Sublime

The ability to maintain and express strength and hope are essential characteristics of the function of music in Black American culture. These qualities and attitudes were expressed through the phrasing and sound of music, which Coltrane believed was naturally endowed.

Sonny said, “If music is in your heart, you can’t do anything wrong.”

Duke Ellington’s band:

Modern Jazz Quartet,

doing the Japanese and I the English, with background improvisations by Vincent Delgado on the koto and shakuhachi.

Dave Brubeck, the most prominent of the many jazz artists affiliated with cool jazz on the West Coast,