[John Coltrane (1926-1967) - live version and sheet music for "A Love Supreme"]
Allen, in Partisan Review, in 1971, [speaking of (William Carlos) Williams]:
"The influence was that originality of taking the materials from your own existence rather than taking on hand-me-down poetic materials, speech units, rhythmic units and trying to adapt your life to them - you articulate your rhythm, your ownrhythms. The concept of that led, in the 'forties, to Abstract Expressionistpainting and (Willem) de Kooning and (Franz) Kline, it led, in music, to Ornette Colman and all, and uh.. who was a teacher there? - the guy who died two [actually, four] years ago - John Coltrane. It was the same rediscovery of individual soul's impulse that led into Coltrane."
Tip of the hat to the ever-informative Open Culture for reminding us that 87 years ago today in Hamlet, North Carolina, marked the birth of a legend - John William Coltrane, "'Trane".
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