on 8/23/02 3:13 PM, Zachary Steiner at zsteiner@butler.edu wrote:
I would like to know some GOOD reasons why Coltrane isn't so hot. I'm genuinely curious. I don't want to hear that he's boring or sounds bad.
My own misgivings about the Impulse period are basically that the range of material is not as particularly wide as I would like. Coltrane seemed intent on finding an area and refining it relentlessly, which I admire, but is not always what makes for satisfying listening. The guy was such a master that I would have liked things more if he had taken the varietal nature of form as strenously as Monk had, which is, for my money, why Monk's stuff has stayed so fresh. As for the free stuff, Trane's records are always hit and miss for me. OTTH, the Wayne Shorter output on Blue Note is really satisfying to me, because he really explores a variety of harmonies, tempos, soloing orders etc, and because he was just as stylistically diverse in his own soloing. skip h NP: glenn gould, and lots of it