In Offering, there are astonishing, deeply moving moments in which Coltrane uses his voice—he cries out during a solo by Sanders, and twice sings in a sort of vocalise, pounding his chest to make his voice warble....they sound like spontaneous and ingenuous expressions of rapturous joy. But they are gestures that would have had little place amid the prodigious musical strength of Coltrane’s classic quartet. On the other hand, they’re right at home in Coltrane’s open-ended quasi-hangout band, in the familial intimacy that gives rise to its vulnerable furies.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:49:57 +0000