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Jazz: A Short HistoryWhatever the motivation for the concept - it was to mark a new direction for him. The composition is a suite of four movements - each with a different structural framework [‘Acknowledgement’ - relatively freely treated modality, ‘Resolution’ - cadential 8 bar periods, ‘Pursuance’ - 12 bar blues pattern with a modal flavor, ‘Palm’ - strict modality and intensive simplicity] reveals a new feature in Coltrane’s work - motivic ties between sections. These ‘ties’ occur in various permutations and connect the 4 movements. This technic would become a typical procedure in his later work - either sequencing the motif through the keys as it progresses through the different parts of a composition or superimposing it on a modal foundation in the bass and piano. After this recording, Coltrane - ‘the man in the middle’ - became, with ‘Ascension’ made a half-year later, a central figure for the second generation of Free Jazz musicians. His musical journey wandered many paths and to my mind he was clearly the bridge between what came before and what is ‘now’ - just as Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker had done previously ...» |
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