new Coltrane book

[gvopedz]

Some websites are posting "Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend" by Ravi Coltrane and others, to be released next year.

https://bookshop.org/books/coltrane-the-definitive-visual-celebration-of-the-legend/9781984858399

https://juilliardstore.com/products/coltrane-the-definitive-visual-celebration-of-the-legend

 

 

[bertrand]

One of the contributors is illustrious Coltrane scholar Phil Lesh.

[Steve Reynolds]

1 hour ago, bertrand said:

One of the contributors is illustrious Coltrane scholar Phil Lesh.

Is this a sarcastic comment?

[JSngry]

Does it need to be? 

[Steve Reynolds]

Sure sounds like it was. Maybe I’m wrong. Happens often.

Why don’t you let Bertrand answer. Are you familiar with Phil Lesh’s experiences with Coltrane’s music?

[felser]

Baltin: Who are those artists for you that really best exemplify collaboration?

Lesh: The basic inspiration for The Grateful Dead was the Miles Quartet with Coltrane or Trane's quintet from the early Sixties. So that was pretty much the inspiration for the way we approach our music. It was the careful exuberant freedom that they had, the way they listen to one another and how everybody is improvising all at the same time, there's nothing that's fixed. I heard a performance of Trane's Quintet in '62, in San Francisco. It totally transformed my life and my view of music, because it just kept evolving. It just kept changing and evolving and yet you always were aware wherever you were coming from. It was the finest thing I'd ever heard [chuckle]. And I grew up in the classic music scene, so I hadn't known how deeply improvised music could go and how powerful it could be and that really opened my eyes, my ears, my heart.

Baltin: You're doing this festival in Chicago with Wilco. Do you see how that early inspiration from listening to the Trane Quintet or the Miles Quartet still influences you today?

Lesh: Absolutely, it's like a fundamental building block of how I approach the music that I make. That was the transformative experience. And I've kind of tried to live up to that.

[bertrand]

Lesh's experiences with Coltrane are hardly unique. But he has the cache to sell books. I find this state of things frustrating.

Grace Slick has stated that Sketches of Spain inspired White Rabbit, but I don't expect her to write a foreword to a Gil Evans bio.

[jazzbo]

Phil Lesh and Grace Slick are two very different persons and musicians.

[Steve Reynolds]

22 minutes ago, bertrand said:

Lesh's experiences with Coltrane are hardly unique. But he has the cache to sell books. I find this state of things frustrating.

Grace Slick has stated that Sketches of Spain inspired White Rabbit, but I don't expect her to write a foreword to a Gil Evans bio.

Phil Lesh became one of the greatest improvising musicians of the 20th century. The Grateful Dead was the first rock band to incorporate avant-garde into their long form improvised jams. 

[JSngry]

Coltrane already has a church. Does he really need a new picture book? 

One thing I notice is that most folks go for the trance without having a clue about the actual theories involved.

Suckers. 

[gvopedz]

I would say it will be great if the Patti Smith contribution to the book motivates more punk rockers to listen to Coltrane.

[JSngry]

Are there still punk rockers? 

[danasgoodstuff]

7 hours ago, JSngry said:

Are there still punk rockers? 

Were there ever?