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Title: An intriguing very-late Trane performance
Review: As you may have guessed from the other reviews, no, Coltranes late work is not very accesible. If you liked "Giant steps" and "A love supreme", and are expecting more of the same, forget it. This bears more resemblence to Ornette Colemans work.The music is quite dissonant, with Coltrane bending notes out of tune and shrieking for expressive purposes. However, there is not as much shear "loudness" as there is on recordings such as "meditations" (where Sanders loudly honks through the album).Jazz newbies are well advised to start from the early recordings and work their way up to this. On the other hand, Coltrane fans who've heard the late classic quartet material in the Impulse! box set (such as "First Meditations") and would like to explore more of Tranes experiments in free jazz will find this interesting.
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