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Why, according to Edward Strickland, has America not produced a greater and more inspirational musician than John Coltrane?

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... melancholy and transcendental yearning that ultimately recall Bach more than Parker, the jungle calls and glossolalic shrieks, the whirlwind runs and spare elegies for murdered children and a murderous planet--is at root merely a suffering man's breath ...

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