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    Almond Trees: Musings About a Jazz Icon
    Almond Trees: Musings About a Jazz Icon
    Almond Trees: Musings About a Jazz Icon
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    Almond Trees: Musings About a Jazz Icon

    By Isabella

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    Almond Trees, Musings About a Jazz Icon is a collection of 36 poems, primarily free verse, that explore John Coltranes story from family background to his acclaimed music. The book is the authors informal, personal search for new insights into Coltranes giftedness and the importance of small groups in recognizing and fostering such giftedness among children and youth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 23, 2014
    ISBN9781499068740
    Almond Trees: Musings About a Jazz Icon
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    Isabella

    Award winning, international best selling author, Isabella, lives in California with her wife and three sons. Isabella's first novel, Always Faithful, won a GCLS award in the Traditional Contemporary Romance category in 2010. She was also a finalist in the International Book Awards, and an Honorable Mention in the 2010 and 2012 Rainbow Awards.She is a member of the Rainbow Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and the Gold Crown Literary Society. She has written several short stories and just finished her next novel, Razor's Edge - American Yakuza III, set for an April 15th release. She is current working on Cigar Barons - A family dynasty where blood isn't thicker than water, it's war!

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      Almond Trees - Isabella

      ALMOND TREES

      Musings About a Jazz Icon

      Isabella

      Copyright © 2014 by Isabella.

      Image—John Coltrane, 1963

      By Gelderen, Hugo van/Anefo

      Source: Dutch National Archive

      http://www.gahetna.nl/collectie/afbeeldingen/fotocollectie/zoeken/weergave/detail/start/1/tstart/0/q/zoekterm/John%20Coltrane%20CC-BY-SA

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 11/06/2014

      Xlibris

      1-888-795-4274

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      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Preface

      Acknowledgements

      INTRODUCTION

      Monet’s Palette

      Power

      Quiet, Introspection, Serendipity

      and Humility

      THE STORY—Part 1

      Nation

      North Carolina

      The Point

      Easy

      Shattered

      Leaving

      South North

      Pause

      THE STORY—Part 2

      Transcendent

      A Love Supreme

      Seed

      Education

      a. Introduction

      b. Self

      c. Self and Others

      d. Schools

      Adversary

      Flying Low

      Window

      Climbing

      Cataclysmic

      Universal

      Classic

      Blue Train

      Giant Steps

      Kind of Blue

      My Favorite Things

      A Love Supreme—Redux

      Other

      Freedom

      RETROSPECTIVE

      Almond Trees

      Special

      Values

      End Notes

      Bibliography

      Dedication

      To the Classic Quartet

      John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison

      image_edited.jpg

      John Coltrane, 1963

      Photo by Gelderen, Hugo van/Anefo

      Dutch National Archives and Wikipedia

      But, overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe… That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.

      John William Coltrane, 1962

      My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you

      play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am—my faith, my knowledge, my being.

      John William Coltrane, 1966

      Preface

      Several years ago a friend asked me to review a short essay he had written on what distinguishes John Coltrane as one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century. My first impulse was to decline since my interest in John Coltrane ended abruptly decades ago when I purchased Meditations. Nothing had prepared me for the cacophony of dissonance I heard on Track 1, The Father And the Son And The Holy Ghost. I filed Meditations away permanently.

      Once I began to read the essay, memories of the gifted fourth-graders I taught my second year at P.S. 125 M, New York City, flooded my mind. I questioned the notion of genius, methods of distinguishing genius early on, and how best to educate such students. Significant

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