Remember Jazz?

Reading NY Times Music Critic Ben Ratliff's view of John Coltrane's music and impact in Coltrane, I began to think of my own Jazz CD's. Along with John Coltrane, Miles Davis is the only other Jazz act who rule my CD collection. Ratliff's book isn't a bio, but a look at what Coltrane's music did to the Jazz world. It's enlightening to read the same hatred of Coltrane's Free Jazz period as Miles would later encounter in his Jazz Fusion period. The book is short but pointed. Something Coltrane's last recordings weren't. Ratliff wrote a Jazz essential's book in 2002 that is worth checking out if your new to the genre.