Fifty years ago, when drummer Rashied Ali entered the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his latest session with John Coltrane, he was surprised to find the rest of the saxophonist's band absent. "I went in there, and I was setting up, and I didn't see Jimmy
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: John Coltrane’s ‘Interstellar Space’ at 50: Legacy of a Free-Jazz Masterpiece