Am 8. April 1965 bespricht Don De Michael dann A Love Supreme (*****),
Musically, Coltrane is very much together on this record. The excesses of the
past are conquered. Everything counts; nothing sprawls.
heisst es zB und
This is a significant album, because Coltrane has brought together the promising but underdeveloped aspects of his previous work; has shorn, compressed, extended, and tamed them; and has emerged a greater artist for it.
am 2. Dezember 1965 folgt dann eine Rezension von „The John Coltrane Quartet Plays“ (****1/2) von Richard B Hadlock… am 30. Dezember darf dann A B Spelman ein Coltrane Konzert aus dem Village Gate rezensieren, mit einer grösseren Band:
John Coltrane, soprano and tenor saxophones; Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophones; Carlos Ward, alto saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashid Ali, Elvin Jones, drums.
The band John Coltrane showed at the Gate Nov. 10 might be called „J. C. & After.“ Coltrane, who put the kinetic field back into the tenor saxophone after it had been lost when the Illinois Jacquets disappeared from Respectability ( a small, affluent suburb of New York), assembled an aggregation of reed men who were learning their fingering when he was cutting Blue Trane; their harmony when he was cutting Milestones; their selves when he was cutting Coltrane’s Music.
Trane, with his Ascension record date and with the augmented quartet he uses in the clubs, is not only creating a band with more power than Con Ed but is also introducing some of the best of the New Jazz musicians to the World of the Living Wage and, thereby, performing a double service. Shepp and Saunders, by virtue of the discomforting weight of their music, get precious few gigs, and Coltrane, by presenting their music in its proper musicological context, is performing a great service to their generation. Both these men have highly distinctive styles. They really sound nothing like Coltrane, but it is clear that they have benefited from Coltrane’s line, harmonics, and dissection of a song’s melody.
hoffe ich find jetzt was zu Ascension…
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