well, it would have to be that iconic photo of John Coltrane not playing, but thinking. This is something that I feel is so special about [Jim Marshall’s] photography. He’s one of the photographers that realized that sometimes musicians are more interesting when we’re not performing and we’re thinking about the music, when we’re communicating with each other—and he captured that.

KAMAU KENYATTA

JOHN COLTRANE at Ralph Gleason’s house in Berkeley, California, 1960