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Post subject: John Coltrane and Duane Allman
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:38 am
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My favorite musicians are most often people who rise above being in a particular genre and just make good music. I was listening to an Allman Brothers album and started thinking: there are a lot of parallels between the music and careers of Duane Allman and John Coltrane.

Both were virtuoso musicians and cleared new ground for their instruments. Both are very well respected, but I think that both are somewhat underappreciated because their music is pretty inaccessible compared to their peers. Both are probably best known for their work with other seminal musicians from their day (Layla w/ EC for Duane Allman, Kind of Blue w/ Miles Davis for Coltrane). One obvious difference is that Coltrane's career was able to play out more fully than Allman's (he lived to the ripe old age of 40).

Anyway, listen to Coltrane's Love Supreme with this in mind see if you agree. Thoughts?

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:05 am
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Man...you've got a good ear! Duane was influenced to some extent by Coltrane.


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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:08 am
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I confess I have fewer than a dozen 'real' jazz records, but A Love Supreme is one of them. Great album.


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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:17 pm
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Bluesgrass, you are directly on target. I purchased a 1997 reissue of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The interior booklet came with a commentary by Robert Palmer. You would love to read it. I will type it all in here, if there is interest. It would be a quite lengthy post though. Palmer states that he was a saxophonist who played the Fillmore East in the 60's. He says that he used to see and hang out with the Allman Brothers Band and the earlier group Hourglass. Excerpts:

"Duane was a rare melodist and a dedicated student who was never evasive about the sources of his inspiration. "You know," he told me one night after soaring for hours on wings of lyrical song, "that kind of playing comes from Miles and Coltrane, and particularly Kind of Blue. I've listened to that album so many times that for the past couple of years, I haven't hardly listened to anything else.""

"One day I'd played Duane a copy of Coltrane's Ole, an album recorded a little more than a year after Kind of Blue...He was evidently fascinated; but a mere three or four years later, at the Fillmore, I heard a musician who'd grown in ways I never could have imagined."

"Duane brought something special, even unique to the table, but it seemed that everyone was sharing the meal."


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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:22 pm
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That's very cool! It's interesting to find out where people get their inspiration. I listened to A Love Supreme again today with all this in mind and it really does sound totally different. Tomorrow I'll try listening to Kind of Blue and then the Fillmore album and see what happens. :D

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