This past August he was kind enough to talk to me about his book, John Coltrane's music and writing about jazz. Porter, aside from being the author of six books on jazz, is a performer and Associate Professor of Music at Rutgers University, Newark. That's the funniest thing. I wish I could explain that.
Life is funny.
Sometimes you can get excited about something and you can't remember why. I didn't think I'd ever published anything. He was very practical. He did give me good advice. It was only two years after that I said I really want to do a book on John Coltrane.