A freelance jazz journalist and Coltrane authority Contributor for Japanese magazines Jazz Japan (former Swing Journal,) Jazz Critique, Record Collectors and many others since 1987 An author/co-author of John Coltrane/A Discography and Musical Biography, Scarecrow Press, MD, 1995 and The John Coltrane Reference, Routledge, NYC 2007. Award: “The Best Book 2008” by BBC-UK and “The Best Research 2009” by ARSC, USA. Author: Coltrane/ The Jazz Martyr Iwanami-shinsho, Japan 2011 One of board of "The Coltrane Home" in Huntington Dix Hills, NY, USA where John had been living three years - '64 through '67 - and composed his masterpiece "A Love Supreme" in 1964. http://www.thecoltranehome.org/