Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak
6 May 2021
Saxophonist John Coltrane performing with Elvin Jones and Eric Dolphy in 1961. (Photo: Bill Wagg/Redferns/Getty Images)
Not all professors or the public are sold on John yet. I have heard quite reputable critics put Coltrane down for reasons that are sometimes extra-musical, sometimes extra-rational. But, to my mind, the greatest disparagement of John Coltrane must come from those who cannot hear what he is doing. From people, well meaning and/or intelligent as they might be, who simply do not hear the music.
Another reason why people might not be able to hear John Coltrane might be the simple fact that he is such a singularly unclassifiable figure; almost an alien power, in the presence of two distinct and almost antagonistic camps. John’s way is somewhere between the so-called mainstream and those young musicians I have called the avant-garde.
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