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Re: A lot of latter day revisionism takes place with Coltrane...

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Very well put. I am constantly amazed how forums turn into flame-fests because a newbie has expressed an interest in something, and the more experienced among us begin to argue---losing sight of what was asked in the first place. To even argue the relative merits of pre- vs. post-tertiary harmonic substituition Trane is just silly, given we're trying to help a guy who just discovered Trane this past weekend--as if the work of any individual negates the work of another---or even his own earlier work. Such agendas, yeesh.

And for the more advanced Trane-o-philes, his bad tooth he had fixed in the 50s, the day before one of the great Miles sessions (Round about Midnight, Kinda Blue, I don't remember which).

Mouthpiece-wise, he used a TON of different ones, from an old Link Tone Master (used on most of the Prestige sides), to metal Selmers, to short-block rubber Selmers, to rubber Links, and altered Super Tone Mater Florida Links.

People like to rhapsodize about the significance of such things and their origins (e.g., "bad teeth"), but the reality is that Trane, like most musicians, was always looking for something different. Simple as that. Kinda like growing a moustache.


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