John Coltrane “Alabama”

When I was little this was one of my top rollerskating songs. I loved everything on the Live At Birdland album.
This performance was recorded in 1963. Enjoy!

John Coltrane “Dear Old Stockholm”

I was sixteen when I moved out of my parents house. I started attending school at a small liberal arts college halfway across the country. I remember the day they dropped me off. They helped me unpack. My roommate had already moved in but was nowhere to be seen. She’d already covered the walls with [...]

John Coltrane “I Want To Talk About You”

When I was a girl, my sister and I used to lace up our roller-skates and skate around the living-room. We only did this when our parents weren’t home. My father had a big stereo system and shelves of LP’s. I studied the covers of most of those albums–flipped them over and over [...]