John
Coltrane speaks to me. We talk about the state of music among the melanin
enriched. Today there seems to be too many sound effects and not enough natural
sound. You do not know what genre you are listening to these days. Gospel
spills over into rhythm and blues, rhythm and blues spills over into hip-hop.
Coltrane does not mind that so much because lines should be blurred. The
problem is that not much of the music motivates or touches us deeply. Maybe we
need to go back to slave songs. Coltrane explained improvisation within
parameters, stretching parameters and improvising again. We talk about
vibrations, how important it is for artists to reach the universal vibration to
offer the audience a chance to experience something beyond the structures of
the five senses. John Coltrane loves to speak to the multitudes and I love to
listen to him.
