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Article: John Coltrane: His Life and Music.(Review)
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By Lewis Porter. (The Michigan American Music Series.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. [xvii, 409 p. ISBN 0-472-10161-7. $29.95.]
Lewis Porter is unquestionably one of the leading names in contemporary jazz scholarship. In addition to his academic pursuits at Rutgers University, where he directs the master's program in jazz history and research, he is also a prolific writer who has in recent years produced several important volumes on jazz. These include his two books on Lester Young (Lester Young [Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985] and A Lester Young Reader [Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991]) and an authoritative jazz-history textbook ...