Jack Rose - I Do Play Rock and Roll LP xx2001 offering listeners an empathetic hand

offering listeners an empathetic hand in which to hold as we navigate a world of ever-increasing loneliness

flowing fluidly in sequence

Meanwhile by David Nance

And be that as it may

Jack Rose - I Do Play Rock and Roll LP xx2001 offering listeners an empathetic handJohn Coltrane died at age 40, and in retrospect it seems as if the intensity of activity in his last years, the sheer torrent of notes, was an attempt at purging the music from his soul before it was too late. The guitarist Jack Rose died at 38, in 2009, and listening back to his catalog one has a similar notion. Like Coltrane, Jack Roses last years were marked by a shimmering intensity, an outpouring of his spirit, onto audiences and records. I