Impressions

The audience filed out, stunned and bludgeoned. The comfortable had been disturbed. The merely hip had been driven back to protests of cacophony, anarchy, disorder.

Some people believe that even at its best, the music of John Coltrane never achieved the free flow of Ornette (the comings together and conversation of Free Jazz), or the arranged blossoms of sound-clusters of Sun Ra, but us Trane'd folks believe differently. His music does have excitement and immense raw power – an experience in itself. 'Trane could beat himself bloody, pounding at the farthest reaches of experience and come back with only his effort as an answer.

Perhaps that alone is his answer.