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John Coltrane: the Last Appearance

This article is a fascinating account of what appears to have been John Coltrane’s last public appearance on May 7, 1967 as part of Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society’s Sunday concerts. Accounts differ but it appears that Algie DeWitt was added on bata drum and Alice Coltrane was home taking care of Oran, their newborn. DeWitt, incidentally had been on Coltrane’s final New York appearance a week earlier, recently issued as The Olatunji Concert...