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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: A lot of latter day revisionism takes place with Coltrane... posted by Robert H. on December 3, 2002 at 11:42:11:
I agree that this has been an interesting discussion, regardless of the fact that it may not be very relevent for the poor newbie who just wants to know which Coltrane album to pick up next. (My vote: Blue Trane, Giant Steps and Live at Birdland--a nice overview.)But let me ask/contribute two cents on something: It's been said that "Trane's metal Link was refaced around 1962, the "Ballads" recording and a few others were the result." I've always had a hunch that the series of relatively conservative albums that followed the wild (and at the time poorly received) Village Vanguard stuff might have been a response to the harsh criticism that "Chasin' the Trane" and the like received on initial release. As most readers will know, critics were merciless, calling these performances "anti-jazz" and questioning whether this new style was some sort of joke on the audience. Trane took them surprisingly seriously, at least if we read interviews of the time at face value.
Thus, I've always wondered if the Ballads/Hartman/Duke records weren't a kind of retrenching, a pulling back from the edge in response to the pasting Trane was taking in the press. I should make it clear that even if this is true, it's not a knock on Trane: those records are very good, whatever the motivation for the change in direction. I'm just asking the opinion of the obviously well-learned posters here: was the harsh criticism of the Vanguard material a factor in the launching of a more conservative period in Trane's development, or was it really (as he said at the time) merely the result of ruining his favorite mouthpiece?
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- Mouthpiece and ballads - M. Lucky 10:33:34 12/04/02 (1)
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