The cover art is ready to go!  😉

im gonna play my Coltrane vinyl collection in a (kinda) chronological order coming weeks. Coltrane was my first big love and with Mal he still stands out as my big jazz hero  

I am surprised there’s a record where Norman Connors plays ‘shitty’. I really enjoy his playing on most records. He’s outstanding with Sam Rivers.

orignal German pressing 

This is all very interesting if it is indeed true.  Thanks. I think that the direction to orient improvisations to the melody as opposed to just playing on the chords is not inconsistent with an accepted harmonic progression.  Monk's approach in that regard was quite different than that of Ornette.