John Coltrane & Don Cherry.
Geez, I hated this record.
We were 18 and living in a broken down residence hotel in New York, having played in rock bands since we were freshmen in high school, trying very hard to be hip, when Rodney brought it in from his father’s record collection. We’d heard of Coltrane, had no idea who Cherry was, and every time we put on this track we waited about two minutes and *shuddered* before we scratched it off the turntable. It took me years to figure out that it was an anomoly in Coltrane’s discography.
And it was a few years before I got the session was Coltrane’s way of examining the new music being ushered into being in the early 60s by Ornette Coleman (who’s band was playing with Trane and who composed most of the tracks).
I came to love . A lot. The composition, the playing, the players. Yeah, out there. But, yeah, cool.
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On March 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am
At least it made it onto your turntable. The cover art looks familiar. I’m certain I passed it while perusing our (OK , mostly Michael’s) record collection in search of the soundtrack of the day.
But the title alone would surely have been intimidating. I’ll listen now.