2011.08.15 Pheeroan akLaff on Coltrane and Miles in Japan - 1 of 3

The music I love has porous boundaries.  If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy right back to them.  If the acoustics are kind, the music will communicate better among the musicians, between musician and audience.  But what about the people the artists met that day?  And the food they ate and the air they breathed?  Can an audience hear all of that?  What about the lives people have lived in that place?  The love and sacrifice that was made there?  And what about what was in that place before all of that?  Does a place have a spirit and can it live in the music?  Oh, yes it can and it does!  

 

Don't believe me?  Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and I will prove it to you on this week's Deep Focus, recorded in 2011.   We explore rare live recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Japan in the Sixties when that country was just taking its place on the world's stage. 

 

This Monday on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

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Photo credit: John Coltrane stamp - Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.