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Coltrane saluted by Skidmore four
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Alan Skidmore Quartet
Cafe Oto, London
The 52nd anniversary of John Coltrane’s passing was commemorated last week at at Cafe Oto by a powerful quartet led by 77-year-old tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore, one of Trane’s great emulators.
He prefaced the performance with these words: “From my heart, a huge thank you to him for all his inspiration.”
And Skid had heard him live too as a teenager, at his famous 1961 Walthamstow concert.
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