INTERVIEW/PROFILE: John Coltrane: Sheets of Sound

If you love listening to John Coltrane, then you know that the phrase "sheets of sound" refers to the tenor saxophonist's cascades of arpeggios. The term is so closely linked to Coltrane that it's hard to find an article or book about the jazz giant that doesn't use it somewhere to describe his massively energetic style in the late 1950s and beyond. But do you know who originated the term...

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