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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: 19th Chord????? posted by Matthew G. on February 16, 2001 at 15:15:16:
It's quite good and such a rare treat to read someone who actually knows something about music, rather than the more typical responses such as "I know what I like and that's all I need to know", or "My rock guitar god rules and if you don't agree you suck".I'm fully in agreement with the detractors of Albert Ayler, as well as those of Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, and the rest. Compared to them, Coltrane's 60s era material is masterful.
Do you recall that in the wake or Ornette Coleman's break with convention, there were many jazz musicians who dismissed the avantgardists as phonies and fakes because, as they claimed, the avantgardists weren't really musicians at all; couldn't play anything
standard tunes, lacked the chops to handle conventional material, and really just made atonal sounds with their instuments because it was all they could do? I find the battles in jazz of the past decades highly intersting.As I noted in my original Coltrane post, I'd made an attentive survey of the classical atonalists/serialists/radicalists long ago. I reject
atonality in classical music and I don't find it's applications in jazz any more attractive. In Coltrane's case, even though he doesn't
completely abandon tonal centers, they seem to be unrelated when they appear in the longer works and hardly console the ear to any great degree.I also hasten to point out that I had not intended to say that Coltrane in the final phase of his career was junk; quite the contrary. I simply don't like it, but I'm extremely interested in hearing out those who do.
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- Pleasure To Make Your Aquaintance - Neward T 17:09:05 02/16/01 (1)
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