On 3 Apr 2008, at 6:40 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Well, I would hate to make a sweeping generalization such as "those that have tried have all failed very badly, in my estimation" based on a single person's interpretation. Only when you've heard a significant number, could such a statement have any validity.
The point is there *aren't* a "significant number" of versions of _A Love Supreme_ out there, because it's such a personal work, most people don't even attempt it. And those attempts I've heard have all been failures, despite sometimes involving very good musicians, like Branford's quartet.
I've heard more than just Branford's version, obviously. But there are only a handful of covers of _A Love Supreme_ in the first place. The implication of the argument that you (and John) are making is that the very small number of people who have attempted their own version of _A Love Supreme_ reflects poorly on the work itself. I find this argument absurd, I have to say.
I think that in another 10 years we'll see a lot more new versions of Coltrane's music, as newer people who don't have the same reverence for the original recordings see past Coltrane's performance of them into the soul of the music and take it out of his shadow and breathe new life into them as works of music.
There are plenty of covers of Coltrane compositions out there -- just not _A Love Supreme_, most likely because it's such a deeply personal, individual work.
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