Cleo Elvin Johns, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 13, 1916, at Advance, Mo., son of Charles Edward and Florence ...

Elvin was the engine of the rhythm section around Coltrane, A V-8 sometimes running on four cylinders, sometimes on six. As I mentioned in Coltrane's Music, in 1962, I had the good fortune to see and ...