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soulpopeDesweiteren überlegenswert …. : https://pleasekillme.com/love-supreme-john-coltrane/ Der Einfluss von John Coltrane`s „A Love Supreme“ auf die Musik ….
A Love Supreme (and Coltrane) has been cited by a small army of rock & rollers as having deeply impacted their lives and music, including Patti Smith, the MC 5, Grateful Dead, Peter Buck, Steely Dan, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell, and Henry Kaiser. It may, in fact, have been the opening clarion call to the Age of Aquarius, the new consciousness, two years before any rock & rollers turned to Eastern gurus to get their heads together, man. Coltrane named his son Ravi, after Ravi Shankar, for crying out loud! Den kann man wohl gar nicht hoch genug einschätzen.
Es gibt da diese nette Rubrik auf Pitchfork – XY on the Music of His/Her Life. Dort war vor anderhalb Jahren auch mal Henry Rollins dran (der im übrigen eine megariesige Plattensammlung hat). Er erklärt darin, wie er zu John Coltrane gekommen ist, in seiner typischen all or nothing-Art :
In ’91 I was living in Venice and I had this epiphany while listening to Coltrane’s Live at Birdland: John Coltrane is my favorite musician, and jazz is the best thing America ever came up with, and I need to know every single thing about jazz.
Was ich daran interessant finde, ist, dass Rollins an Coltrane etwas schätzt (weil er eigentlich in gewisser Weise ähnlich ist), was mich manchmal von Coltrane abhält und mich dann aber wieder sehr anzieht, nämlich die todernste Intensität, die er pflegte. Rollins bringt die Wirkung, die Jazz und Coltrane haben kann, gut auf den Punkt: I connected with Coltrane because there’s just not one impure note he ever blew. Find the photo of Coltrane where he doesn’t look intense. Even when he’s smiling, look at the eyes. And quite often he wouldn’t really look at the camera. He’s looking at what could be. I know I’m getting a little highfalutin, but he’s intense. He meant it all the way to the end. So Coltrane made me aspire to just be musically pure, and it’s the jazz guys that informed my musical integrity: If you don’t like it, don’t play it. I got that a bit from Black Flag, but I really got it from jazz. The real punk rock in America is bebop.