In Reply to: A lot of latter day revisionism takes place with Coltrane... posted by Robert H. on December 2, 2002 at 14:43:10:
I think you have some things out of order, but I may be wrong. Weren't the teeth more of a problem in the 60's? Isn't he using that rubber mouthpiece on Interstellar Space, one of his last albums?No matter. I would say the Prestige stuff is less consistently good than the Atlantic or Impulse stuff, and drugs were surely a factor in that. He wasn't a junkie ALL that time though, and you seem to forget that virtually all of Trane's colleagues at the time would have been junkies too. Still, there's great music spread over all that time and everybody has different favorites. The truth is, nobody can tell the original poster where to go next and guarantee that it's really where he wants to go.
Here's my rec: lots of good recs in this thread already. Get one or two from each time period (the ones named most in this thread are fine), figure out what you like, and go from there. MFT is OK, but there is MUCH better Trane out there. WARNING: Your time with other artists may suffer when you really start to get into Coltrane.
dh
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