Coltrane

Summary

Dominique Pagani places Coltrane in the history of modern jazz. He links him to the Miles Davis quintet, where Davis discovered him, and regards him as the greatest soloist after Parker1. He places him in the succession of styles: after Miles Davis's cool, Coltrane brings in a new sound2, ahead of Dolphy, who comes slightly later. He compares Coltrane's tenor tone, which is sharp, with those of Getz and Rollins: it is the same instrument, but not the same sound world3. He dwells mainly on My Favorite Things, which opens Coltrane's modal period. In it he traces the move from rhythm and blues to the tonal jazz of the standards, then to a modal jazz built on two chords, with a hypnotic effect4. This modal music keeps a memory of the tonal through a mediant modulation5. He also notes that this modal sound is taken to be unheard-of when it in fact goes back to the oldest music6, and he points out Coltrane's solo on So What.

1. 1Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?31 Mar 2021 · 31:05
2. 2#16 Michel Clouscard: “There are no holidays in the concept!”7 Jul 2022 · 22:34
3. 3Free gold for everyone: Mulligan8 Jun 2022 · 5:45
4. 4#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 38:29
5. 5#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 1:43:21
6. 6#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 1:09:12

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