Leonard Brown is a professional saxophonist, composer and arranger, an ethnomusicologist and associate professor of African American Studies and Music at Northeastern University in Boston. He is a Ford Fellow (postdoctoral) and the recipient of distinguished scholarship awards. He served as senior consulting historian and principal ethnomusicologist for the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO, the first national jazz museum in the USA and is co-author of Kansas City and All That's Jazz. Brown is co-founder and producer of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert, the world's oldest annual performance tribute to Coltrane, established in Boston in 1977.

FOREWORD BY T.J. ANDERSON ; PREFACE BY LEONARD BROWN ; 1. You Have To Be Invited - Leonard Brown ; 2. In His Own Words - Leonard Brown ; 3. John Coltrane and the Practice of Freedom - Herman Gray ; 4. John Coltrane As the Personification of Spirituality In Black Music - Anthony Brown ; 5. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Alice Coltrane and the Redefining of the Jazz Avante Garde - Tammy Kernodle ; 6. When Bar Walkers Preach: John Coltrane and The Crisis of the Black Intellectual - Tommy Lee Lott ; 7. "Don't Let the Devil (Make You) Lose Your Joy": A Look at Late Coltrane - Salim Washington ; 8. The Spiritual Ethos in Black Music and its Quintessential Exemplar, John Coltrane - Emmett G. Price III ; 9. Somebody Please Say, Amen! - Eric Jackson ; 10. . Masters on A Master Introduction: Anthony Brown's and Leonard Brown's Interviews with Olly Wilson, Yusef Lateef and Billy Taylor ; 11. Conversation with Olly Wilson ; 12. . Conversation with Yusef Lateef ; 13. Conversation with Billy Taylor ; 14. Coda: George Allen Russell on John Coltrane's Legacy