And whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Many people identify that tune not
bothering who wrote the words. Many played that musical over not caring if neighbours
enjoyed it that much. Yet many others relive their first experience seeing that
movie not worrying about the science that explains how they’re able to do so.
But learning ‘the how’ was
John Coltrane’s business. Born in 1926 America, when and where jazz was just
taking roots; having no grasp of mathematics, crucial to understanding the
genre; and living for only 40 years, which meant too little time to achieve
mastery; John William Coltrane lumbered against the odds to know ‘the how’. His
work would endure by learning how. And learn he did – inflection, syncopation
and improvisation – the very how of writing, recording and performing on
“Moment’s Notice”. He had to learn if truly, and how, “The Night Has a Thousand
Eyes”. John Coltrane found how “Midriff”
would reel out of the Art Blakey Big Band. For Trane, nothing compares to
knowing the how.On John Coltrane for Legends of the Score
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