gvopedz Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 One of the contributors is illustrious Coltrane scholar Phil Lesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 1 hour ago, bertrand said: One of the contributors is illustrious Coltrane scholar Phil Lesh. Is this a sarcastic comment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Does it need to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Phil Lesh and Grace Slick are two very different persons and musicians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvopedz Posted September 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 I would say it will be great if the Patti Smith contribution to the book motivates more punk rockers to listen to Coltrane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Are there still punk rockers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 7 hours ago, JSngry said: Are there still punk rockers? Were there ever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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