Music interview: Sean Jones on preparing the talented teens of NYO Jazz for their Edinburgh International Festival debut
As a teenager, trumpeter Sean Jones underwent a transformative experience. He’d been hooked on jazz since hearing Miles Davis when he was ten, but driving home late one night, he heard John Coltrane’s magisterial A Love Supreme on the radio: “I had to pull over, I was so overwhelmed with emotion,” he recalls. “It completely changed my life and I started to understand what spirituality was.”