July 17, 2026
This year’s celebration of John Coltrane’s 100th birthday is also a tribute to his playing, his music and his single-handed revolution of the jazz idiom. This blog site’s humble contribution to the festivities is in the form of Dark Hollow’s cover of the hauntingly beautiful composition “Naima.” With relatively sparse backing, the melody is rendered through wordless vocals we felt best suited this arrangement.
“Naima”
As an educator, musician and author of Road to Infinity: Marvel’s Multimedia Journey, Nothing to Turn Off: The Films and Video of Bob Dylan and Before the Wind: Charles K. Landis and Early Vineland as well as fifteen-years of articles for the SNJ Today newspaper, I am using Epistrophe as a platform for posting new writings, article reprints, book excerpts and original music.
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