Sublime

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

His time with Monk provided an apprenticeship with one of the greatest musical minds of the twentieth century. While with Monk, Coltrane’s conceptual approaches broadened significantly, including melodic invention, rhythmic variations, and mastery of vertical approaches to improvisation and sophisticated harmonic variations. His confidence grew str

Meeting the man himself, it is hard to believe that such a quiet, calm, and serious individual could be responsible for the frantic ‘sheets of sound’ which emanate from his tenor saxophone, or that such [a] sensitive person could think of his uglier wailings on soprano as beautiful.”

The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.