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Friday's Jazz
Festival events kicked off with a Symposium on Coltrane in Carolina.
Speakers from across the country gathered Friday morning to discuss the
life and work of jazz legend, John Coltrane.
In their opening remarks, the chair people of the symposium, James Ketch,
Annette Wright, Gerald Horne and Soyini Madison described their own work
and involvement with the event.
The first guest
speaker was Lewis Porter, an Associate Producer of Music at Rutgers
University, who is currently working on a book about Coltrane's heritage
and early life. He traced Coltrane all the way back to his
great-grandparents and then proceded to tell the story that lead up to
the birth of Coltrane and finally to the birth of his music.
The day ended with
an open panel discussion.
Text and Photos by Jennifer Fox
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