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John Coltrane

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It was asked "What ever happened to Sonny Rollins" after first (I believe) sabatical; the answer given "A Train ran over him". Anyone familiar with these remarks? Comments?

Like any hep cat and every non-philistine, muscially liberal-open minded youth, I had paid my radical/expiremental dues and listened attentively thought admittedly rather joylessly to most of the approved prophets of the new art, from Ornette Coleman, Do Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, to the alleged historic inevitability of Schoenberg/Berg/Webern, uncle Milt Babbitt, Stockhausen, Vermuellen, etc., etc. I had membership in the club of the musically aware, musically advanced, and artistically cool.

This dues paying included dutiful attentiveness to Coltrane, that sax giant. I bought and listned to most of the ABC Impulse releases, starting with "A Love Supreme".

Now, with the Confidence Supreme that comes with age, experience, and a whole lot more knowledge, I can rely on my instincts and remain true to my musical soul, which says I HATE COLTRANE.

I'm not looking to make a statement, or to discomfort or disparage those who find genious in Train's work. What I hope to provoke is discussion about an artist who still baffles me. It baffles me that I can't stand his cold, hard tone. His style, far from sounding like
sheets of sound, sound like desolate wind.

Train's harmonic sense is always discussed. His appartment was filled with theory and harmony treatises scattered all about the floor. Yet, I think he got little from them, other than licence to range in an undisciplined, desultory manner, to which he added those annoying bleets, squeeks, and screaches. Far from organizing a new harmonic principle, he strikes me as having indulged in nothing more than free-blowing free-for-alls, with a few cadencial points thrown in
to provide an illusory sense of structure.

Am I missing the point?



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Topic - John Coltrane - Neward T 11:23:13 02/14/01 (96)
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