Comments for Coltrane, John, Interstellar Space

Interstellar space is great for irritating your neighbors and alienating your friends. Music can be abstracted only so far before it becomes noise.

Obviously not for Coltrane initiates or for the faint of heart. Interstellar Space was another step in Trane's quest for the one perfect "essential, single line" and like all quests, he didn't know how exactly it would turn out. Anyone who wants to seriously listen to this must dispel the idea that this is being presented as "tradional music" and must accept (and respect) the experimentation involved. Not something I think anyone can casually take in at any time.

Interstellar Space is a fine example of free jazz at its best. It is strengthened by the sparseness of the arrangements. A good example of how Coltrane could espouse a new idiom and improve upon it.

A fine piece of Coltranes direction.......... Rashid Ali said that this late band was a concept that Trane was rather satisfied with and was a direction that he was going into for sure......... I love the harmonic, keyless, improvisational concept....... very a head of its time..... and what energy

The label on the CD case should read: Caution: serious music inside. Yes, there is no doubt about, this is not just a CD you pop in your CD player in the car to make your ride a little more tolerable. But, let's face it, that's not what Coltrane was aiming for. He was on a musical, spiritual and experimental quest that was going lead him wherever his muse dictated. And it was up to the listener to follow. He no longer plays "melodies" or "harmonies." This is in-yr-face music, not even jazz anymore. Rashied, laying down sometimes spare, sometimes chaotic rhythms on the drum kit; Trane breathing out furious abstractions on what it is like to live and what it is like to struggle. If you are ready to approach this music on its own terms it will reveal a beauty and sense of prophecy that you cannot find anywhere else today.

ringing bells, ali's drumset response, coltrane's rising tenor saxophone: a step into another universe. as all of coltrane's music in the sixties unreachable, emotional as well as full of music intelligence.

if there is one item in the Coltrane catalogue that I would choose to play for someone to show them the essence of Trane iw would be venus. words do not begin to explain the power this tracks hold for me.

Thatīs THE Coltrane album for me! On the Whole I think his late recordings are his best.

The essence of late Coltrane. Just Coltrane on tenor sax (and sleigh bells), and Rashied Ali on drums. "A must for Coltrane fans", but probably not as an introduction to his music.