Rafiq Bhatia, a member of the group Son Lux/film composer from North Carolina, reflects on the influence on the early in...

Rafiq Bhatia, a member of the group Son Lux/film composer from North Carolina, reflects on the influence on the early influence fellow North Carolinians John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk had on him. In this clip, Bhatia describes their music as singular, not the product of a desire to produce eccentricities but as a natural expression of new aesthetic impulses. This squaring of the circle, this organic experimentation, he goes on to say he prizes especially as work forged in the crucible of racial pressure on Black Americans. #BlackMusicMonth