Losing History and the Philadelphia Inquirer Isn’t Helping

Taken at the recording session for A Love Supreme 1964 (Photo courtesy of Chuck Stewart)

A recent article on the Coltrane House by reporter Valerie Russ had many errors and was full of bias, which astounded me as a long time Philadelphia jazz musician with a strong history of advocacy in the community, the Coltrane House, and as a friend of Mary “Cousin Mary” Alexander. I used to bring my University of Pennsylvania students from my class on jazz history in the 1990s to the…