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ILLUSTRIOUS avant-garde drummer and
educator who joins the John Coltrane expanded band,
beginning in 1965, and plays on the saxophonist’s album Meditations (1965),
as well as numerous later recordings including Cosmic Music (1966), Live
at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966), Coltrane in Japan (1966),
John Coltrane: Live at Temple University (1966), Stellar
Regions (1967), Interstellar Space (1967), Expression (1967)
Illustrious avant-garde drummer and educator who joins the John Coltrane expanded band, beginning in 1965, and plays on the saxophonist’s album Meditations (1965), as well as numerous later recordings including Cosmic Music (1966), Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966), Coltrane in Japan (1966), John Coltrane: Live at Temple University (1966), Stellar Regions (1967), Interstellar Space (1967), Expression (1967)
Illustrious avant-garde drummer and educator who joins the John Coltrane expanded band, beginning in 1965, and plays on the saxophonist’s album, Meditations (1965), as well as numerous later recordings including Cosmic Music (1966), Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966), Coltrane in Japan (1966), John Coltrane: Live at Temple University (1966), Stellar Regions (1967), Interstellar Space (1967), Expression (1967)
Today, Monday 9 May
2016, Mercury, the planet in our solar system closest to the sun, crosses the “front”
of the rising sun during the course of approximately our seven and one-half hours – crossing occurs only 13/14 times in a century.
(John Coltrane Duo, “Mars”, part-I of 4-part extended suite,Interstellar Space [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bells;Rashied Ali, drums;
recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, Cliff, NJ, US, 22 February 1967])
(John Coltrane Duo, “Venus”, part-2 of 4-part extended suite,Interstellar Space [personnel and recording details as in pt-I])
(John Coltrane Duo, “Jupiter”, part-3 of 4-part extended suite,Interstellar Space [personnel and recording details as in pt-I])
(John Coltrane Duo, “Saturn”, part-4 of 4-part extended suite,Interstellar Space [personnel and recording details as in pt-I])
Illustrious avant-garde drummer and educator who
joins the John Coltrane expanded band, beginning in 1965, and plays on the
saxophonist’s album, Meditations (1965), as well as numerous later recordings
including Cosmic Music (1966), Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966),
Coltrane in Japan (1966), John Coltrane: Live at Temple University (1966),
Stellar Regions (1967), Interstellar Space (1967), Expression (1967)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).
