Saturday, March 08, 2003
"García Lorca, tracing the same quality in Gypsy music back to similar roots in India, called it cante jondo—"deep song." What he said of deep song may be the best description I know of the supreme instrumental meditations of Coltrane and Bull:
Notice, gentlemen, the transcendence of deep song, and how rightly our people call it "deep." It is truly deep, deeper than all the wells and seas that surround the world, much deeper than the present heart that creates it or the voice that sings it, because it is almost infinite. It comes from remote races and crosses the graveyard of the years and the fronds of parched winds. It comes from the first sob and the first kiss."
(from a great remembrance piece by Bill Wadsworth on Sandy Bull)
I'd love someday to write a meaningful review of that come-back record, Jukebox School of Music. The music alone is so good, makes me believe in miracles.
¶ 3/08/2003 05:50:00 PM
Notice, gentlemen, the transcendence of deep song, and how rightly our people call it "deep." It is truly deep, deeper than all the wells and seas that surround the world, much deeper than the present heart that creates it or the voice that sings it, because it is almost infinite. It comes from remote races and crosses the graveyard of the years and the fronds of parched winds. It comes from the first sob and the first kiss."
(from a great remembrance piece by Bill Wadsworth on Sandy Bull)
I'd love someday to write a meaningful review of that come-back record, Jukebox School of Music. The music alone is so good, makes me believe in miracles.
¶ 3/08/2003 05:50:00 PM
