Kurt wanted me to check out this drummer he thought i would like, his name is Rashied Ali, bad ass...
the album is John Coltrane's "Interstellar Space", a duet, drums and sax...i had never heard anything like it. hearing musicians play free was a style i had not been exposed to. blue jazz, big band, fusion...i was very familiar with jazz but not like this...something very special indeed. it reminds me of a fractal; so much detail and still there is endless space. they seem to play in shapes and colors...the flurries between them and alone is really magical.
this led me to more of Coltrane's 'academic' jazz, ohm, meditations, ascension...full bands on these, unreal musicianship; Elvin Jones is playing drums on these now also, some with Rashied some without...Elvin has a completely different style, more animistic than Ali's surgical style...i love the great Elvin, i listened to him quite a bit with Coltrane's classic quartet...Coltrane, Tyner, Garrison and Jones...that is some spiritual music...i would have to say that in my opinion that group recorded the definitive version of "my favorite things"...it's absolutely mind blowing...i had the great fortune of seeing, photographing and meeting Elvin; Coltrane's son Ravi was playing with him too...pretty great night.
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