Counterpoint: You're wrong.
Real talk though, there are so many figures in jazz that I’m glad you found your thing. Coltrane can be polarizing because, in my opinion, he’s highly misunderstood.
So much of what he did can be seen in the same light as what kabbalists do in Jewish and Christian numerology. What you hear as someone mindlessly noodling, according to all accounts, was a man possessed to find a direct line of communication to his own divinity, and beyond that his notion of god.
That isn’t to say you have to like it but I find your analysis of him simply recording himself practicing dismissive, and trite. The man eschewed changes and jazz conventions because he felt they were holding him back from the divine. From the sublime.
It’s not for everyone but I do hope you get it someday. Either way jazz as you know it simply wouldn’t exist without him. If you find Bird, Duke, Miles, and Mingus in a pantheon but not Coltrane, I suggest you listen deeper or not, your choice I guess
Real talk though, there are so many figures in jazz that I’m glad you found your thing. Coltrane can be polarizing because, in my opinion, he’s highly misunderstood.
So much of what he did can be seen in the same light as what kabbalists do in Jewish and Christian numerology. What you hear as someone mindlessly noodling, according to all accounts, was a man possessed to find a direct line of communication to his own divinity, and beyond that his notion of god.
That isn’t to say you have to like it but I find your analysis of him simply recording himself practicing dismissive, and trite. The man eschewed changes and jazz conventions because he felt they were holding him back from the divine. From the sublime.
It’s not for everyone but I do hope you get it someday. Either way jazz as you know it simply wouldn’t exist without him. If you find Bird, Duke, Miles, and Mingus in a pantheon but not Coltrane, I suggest you listen deeper or not, your choice I guess
