Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 280 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new.

Monday, the autumnal equinox will occur at 4:20 AM ET, and we here in the U.S. officially mark the start of fall. I’ve celebrated a wealth of September/fall/autumnal music here in the past, and am opening today with an all-time favorite duo of mine—John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, performing “Autumn Serenade.”

Jazz Profiles from NPR gives some background on Johnny Hartman:

Johnny Hartman was the quintessential romantic balladeer. The only singer to record with John Coltrane, Hartman was mostly known only to true jazz

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