JOHN COLTRANE ジョン・コルトレーン 'Trane is perseverance. His development demonstrates the unquestionable value of hard work and dogged persistence. But his life also testifies to the double-edged power of obsessiveness to build up and to…

6. CHAPTER SIX Lessons from the Masters 第6章 名人達から教わったこと Formal education of the first order: playing in public with the great John Lewis. Because of the pressure of playing onstage, one concert is worth two months in the pract…

You were under a lot of pressure all the time. And that pressure was always to surrender who you were or to accept some else's definition of you ― and that definition required you always to be less than he was. Most of the teachers believe…

5. CHAPTER FIVE 第5章 The Great Coming-Together 仲良きことは美しき哉 Swing dancing ― the highest possible vertical expression of horizontal aspirations. ＜写真脚注＞ スウィングダンス：誰もが心に抱く願いを、立場を越えて表現する最高の方法 On…

It's a quarter after two in the morning and people are lined up around the block. An all-day drizzle has made it one of those nights that manages to stay gray. The third set is late. People are wet and slightly vexed but still patient beca…