Chasin' the Trane: Music and Mystique of John Coltrane

Arts & Photography

Thomas, J.C.

Music

Elm Tree Books

Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late ‘50s and ‘60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced both rock stars and classical musicians. There was a mystical quality, a profound melancholy emanating from this quiet, self-contained man that moved listeners—some of whom knew little about music but heard something beyond music's boundaries in the sounds his saxophone created. J. C. Thomas traces John Coltrane's life and career from his North Carolina childhood through his apprenticeship with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, to its culmination in the saxophonist's classic quartet that played to steadily increasing audiences throughout America, Europe, and Japan.The author has drawn on the recollections of the people who knew Coltrane best—boyhood friends, band members like Elvin Jones, spiritual mentors like Ravi Shankar, and the women who loved him. Chasin' the Trane is the story of a man who struggled against drug addiction, studied African and Eastern music and philosophy, admired both Einstein's expanding universe and the shimmering sounds a harp makes, and left behind the enduring legacy of a master musician who was also a beautiful man.

Coltrane Chasin' The Trane

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Da Capo

A definitive portrait of Jimmy Doolittle reports on the achievements of a towering figure in American aviation whose multifaceted career has spanned the entire history of flight

Doolittle: Biography

Science & Math

Technology

Da Capo Press

NY 1975 first edition. Doubleday. Hardcover octavo. 252p. Half black cloth with red boards. Near Fine (very slight bump on lower right cover tip) in VG, lightly worn, dj (price unclipped.) no owner marks.

Chasin' the Trane: The music and mystique of John Coltrane

DOUBLEDAY

Rational homotopy theory is a subfield of algebraic topology. Written by three authorities in the field, this book contains all the main theorems of the field with complete proofs. As both notation and techniques of rational homotopy theory have been considerably simplified, the book presents modern elementary proofs for many results that were proven ten or fifteen years ago.

Rational Homotopy Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 205)

Félix, Yves

Halperin, Stephen

Mathematics

Springer

Ninja Mouse: Haiku

The shadows are his comrades. He wants nothing. He needs nothing. He is free. He is Ninja Mouse. A collection of haiku poetry with themes of martial arts philosophy and nature. Japanese translations included.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

SuperUltraGo! Press

Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and Fancies, Drawn from Every Land and Language, and Carefully Classified for ... of Teachers, Students and the Family Circle

Reference

Nabu Press

Rational homotopy theory is a subfield of algebraic topology. Written by three authorities in the field, this book contains all the main theorems of the field with complete proofs. As both notation and techniques of rational homotopy theory have been considerably simplified, the book presents modern elementary proofs for many results that were proven ten or fifteen years ago.

Rational Homotopy Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

Birds Of Prey: A Tribal Art Coloring Book

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

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