electric relaxation

I pretend to really like jazz, but for some reason I actually just really like Coltrane. I don’t just put him on to feel cool, but shockingly I seem to want to listen to his stuff – well to be honest, I never really make it much past Blue Train, even though Giant Steps is supposed to be the more seminal work. But I never turn it off either.

Anyway, the Wikipedia has a lot to say about John Coltrane. For example, I had no idea his career was so shaped by Miles Davis. Nor did I know about his heroin addiction and subsequent dalliance with LSD. Around the time he finally kicked the can he was even dabbling in ayurvedic medicine, or some other sort of Hindu hogwash.