I usually do my nonstop listening of The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane on September 23 (duh, Coltrane's birthday). While it might seem like a self-imposed annual ritual of sort, it's really more like a superb excuse to shower myself with those less-familiar alternate takes of Coltrane's Giant Steps and daydream about that Trane's masterpiece would eventually become the number-one-hit on that jolly elevator-music-top-100-chart. This year,...
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