Jazz

John Halle john.halle at yale.edu
Thu Jan 18 14:09:53 PST 2001



>
> What about Coltrane? While Bird Parker was a great musician (the Jimi
> Hendrix of the alto sax), he was terribly conventional in choice of
> arrangements -- his string music being the most obvious example. Coltrane
> was a true innovator who kept pushing and breaking the form. "The Father And
> The Son And The Holy Ghost" is as mad an arrangement as I've ever heard.
> Perhaps it will be understood by 2057.
>

Is "The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost" a standard which Coltrane "arranged" for the session?

If not, I don't understand what you mean by "arrangement."

If so, who's it by, Cole Porter perhaps?



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