Chasing Trane

While hearing the stories of Coltrane’s contemporaries (and Coltrane’s “Number One” Japanese fan) is a joy (and a gift to the oral history of jazz), omission and unopened treasures remain my lasting impressions of CHASING TRANE.

I want to believe that the lack of contemporary saxophone titans (excepting Kamasi Washington, who does make an appearance) like Joshua Redman or Branford Marsalis – the latter made all the more glaring by the presence of his brother, Wynton (and in having just liste...