@ jwb
I know what you mean.
Using more or less openness to chance is a technique used in free jazz (and other avant garde music) used mostly to navigate the important terrain of emotional ambiguity but Coltrane doesn’t do that. Even in his most chaotic material he’s still rearranging notes from a central theme or a scale or series of scales that relate to it. There’s always an organized pattern happening. That may be irrelevant if no one else can decipher it but over time the central themes can be identified by an astute listener no matter a far he went.
His music is by far the most rewarding listening investment ever offered.
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