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Sax Legend Archie Shepp Reflects on Seeing John Coltrane for the First Time

The essence of John Coltrane is music and it was perhaps his life's mission to break music from a traditional grip. Recanting his affinity for the jazz archetype, the also-archetypal Archie Shepp reflects on witnessing Coltrane for the first time and how the saxophonist was able to communicate an entire musical manifesto through the voice of his horn.