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Golio, Gary

Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane's Musical Journey

48 pp. | Clarion | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-23994-1 $17.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. This picture-book biography (best for older children and young teens) successfully describes Coltrane's music and what made it distinctive. The sophisticated illustrations show faces with almost photographic realism, while the lines depicting the background scenes are intentionally distorted and abstracted into swirling shapes. Thus the art ingeniously gets across the story's intangibles: Coltrane's pain, his drug-addled mind, his spirituality, and his music. Discography, reading list, website.
Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012

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