Yusef Lateef

A new write-up examines John Coltrane's famous 'Coltrane Circle', the circular diagram of tones and intervals the saxophonist sketched around 1967 and dedicated to Yusef Lateef. The piece revisits how the chart is read, its links to Lateef's own scale studies, and its enduring grip on musicians puzzling over Coltrane's late harmonic thinking.