Album Rating: 4.0

Great review, I throughly enjoyed reading it. Are you planning on reviewing anymore Coltrane? Transition could also do with a review

Album Rating: 3.5

@Gwyn - hmmm maybe yeah

@music - yeah man but like I said, I wouldn't even rate this if I had the option.

Coming from a huge fan of Coltrane, I strongly dislike this record. It's the only one I simply cannot listen to. Very, very good review. I agree with gyro and you on that last sentence. I'll add in that it rather is unnecessary to add. A bland cookie cutter final note (but I say that in respect to how well thought out this review is). I certainly couldn't write a review for this.

Album Rating: 3.5

@mike - yeah maybe I'll edit it later. Thanks!

Good review--checking it out now. All I can say is . . . This is challenging.

Album Rating: 3.5

this is about as challenging as coltrane gets to be honest. of his albums of this style sun ship is probably my favorite, it's got a whole lot more drive and energy

Used to John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (smooth as silk), but I'm up for a challenge.

Album Rating: 4.0

i found Interstellar Space harder to get into. the sax/drum duets sound so bare and they go nuts on that.



Meditations is fantastic though. it has the song suite form. to me it's like a way rowdier version of A Love Supreme, only with a bigger group and not quite as good

Album Rating: 5.0

chris, have you heard william parker & in order to survive's the peach orchard?

i think you'd like it!

would be awesome to see more coltrane reviews the man could really bring the spirit

Album Rating: 4.0

ethos, not heard that one. was put off by it being a double album. might have a look though

Album Rating: 5.0

feel as though this album contains an emotion that very few of us rarely are even blessed w/

confronting and that is true stagnancy within something we deeply love. everything that comes w/ that as well.. depression, anxiousness, lack of progression, shiftlessness etc. not in the sense that the artist here lacked effort or talent but because (that what was of expected of) his pursuit had almost nowhere else to go. where does such an incredible mind direct itself after nearly achieving practically everything? i've always loved that when listening to anything improvised, especially w/ jazz. the solution can be found here. instead of murdering what he already built upon in grief by repeatedly sticking to similar structures he had already established coltrane instead grew his style by destroying the aforementioned in celebration



smiling



"as upon now as i look out upon the world (and it's always been a thing with me). to feel, that all men know the truth. so therefore i've always felt that the truth itself doesn't have any name onto me. each man has to find that for himself, i think. i believe that man is here to grow themselves into the (full) best good that they can be. at least this is what i want to do. as im going there and becoming this, (when i become or when i ever become) this is what is going to come out of the horn. so whatever that's going to be, that's what my music will be."

Album Rating: 5.0

the absence of shame here is also incredibly commendable and i mean that not only in the idea of

whatever would be exerted off of the audience he had but also within himself



you can hear him genuinely throwing out random ideas at a blared / skewed rhythm that he's displayed all throughout his work just with some kind of improvisation or desperate struggle to make something of it. that really interests me w/ jazz (take#1/2, etc) and if anyone knows or has heard anything similar vein in other artists' discog similar to how it's done here on ascension i'd love to hear it. in a sense i suppose taking something you've already created and make new art out of it courses throughout the design of music but to do it this deliberately and so suddenly in one's career (especially when considering the date and how ascension became a watershed album of free jazz) to the point where your self/sound is practically crying to itself publicly at certain timestamps because it seeks a new idea or direction is ridiculous



it's as if every other album of his conditioned us for this

then repeatedly listening to ascension slowly conditions you and allows it to unfold for itself

dang

Album Rating: 3.5

^sums up what I like about this kinda music. sometimes people can derive beautiful interpretations of it. I wish you'd write some more reviews, ethos

Album Rating: 3.5

in hindsight I'm not 100% satisfied with this writeup, but the point I wanted to drive home was that listeners shouldn't feel intimidated by free jazz if they felt they were 'missing the point', as it's often whatever you make of it

Really fantastic review. Going to be checking out some Coltrane soon. I'm guessing I shouldn't start here, haha. There was a song I heard by him a while back that just completely blew me away, but I don't remember what it's called.

Album Rating: 4.0

I wouldn't start here with Coltrane, but it's something to check out once you're very familiar with his style

Album Rating: 3.5

A Love Supreme is what got me into him. pretty typical choice, but it really blew me away at a time when I was hardly a fan of jazz

Trane is in the house.