Rantoul man is lead author on book chronicling Coltrane
By Melissa Merli
Sunday March 23, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Chris DeVito of Rantoul talks about the book, 'The John Coltraine Reference,' at Cafe Kopi in Champaign. DeVito is the book's lead author.
CHAMPAIGN – For nearly seven years, Chris DeVito spent literally thousands of hours holed up in the University of Illinois newspaper and music libraries, researching jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
Using microfilm and other archives, he scoured hundreds of mainstream, black and underground newspapers and jazz magazines, looking for references, no matter how obscure, to Coltrane's gigs as a sideman or a band leader and to his life and his music.
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