Books: "Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend"

 

Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend

Edited by Ravi Coltrane

Ten Speed Press; hardcover, 288 pages; $60.00; available today, Tuesday, September 1st

Ravi Coltrane is a critically-acclaimed Grammy-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer who is the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. Named after Indian sitae legend Ravi Shankar, he was born on Long Island and raised in Los Angeles, where his family moved after his father's death in 1967. Ravi has led the effort to restore the John Coltrane home in Dix Hills, Long Island, and presides over important reissues of his parents' recordings, while also keeping up his own performance schedule.

McLean Proving Himself To Be Mets Ace

 

Nolan McLean firing one by Houston's Jeremy Pena in the sixth inning on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jason Schott.

Nolan McLean entered the season with a case to be viewed as the ace of the Mets rotation, and as the season hits the home stretch, it looks like case closed.

Books: "City of Fortune" By Mason B. Williams

 

City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York

By Mason B. Williams

W.W. Norton & Company; hardcover, 400 pages; $38.99

Mason B. Williams has written about New York history, as he is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, which was an Editor's Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He is a teacher at Williams College.

Benge Blast Gives Mets Series Win Over San Diego

 

Carson Benge knocking a single in the seventh inning. Photo by Jason Schott.

The Mets beat the San Diego Padres, 4-2, on Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field to take two of three in their series and cap a homestand in which the Mets won five out of six games.

NYCFC Starts Strong, But Philly Pulls It Out Late

 

NYCFC and Philadelphia enter the pitch. Photo by Jason Schott.

New York City Football Club raced out to an early lead once again, but the Philadelphia Union scored three goals in the second half to win 3-2 on Sunday evening at Yankee Stadium.

Battle of the Badges This Wednesday At Citi Field

 

The annual Battle of the Badges baseball game between the New York Police and Fire Departments will be held this Wednesday, August 19th at Citi Field.

Books: "Country of Lords" By Kim Phillips-Fein

 

Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America

By Kim Phillips-Fein

W.W.Norton & Company; hardcover, 256 pages; $35.00

Kim Phillips-Fein is Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal.