Recently I've been meditating as to who is the most important of all jazz musicians.A few weeks ago, I would have identified Mingus for all-around genius. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting is a layered performance that can be continuously revisited, and still not exhausted.
However, recently I've been listening to John Coltrane's "Attaining" on Sun Ship.
Wow! It's a hard call. Mingus was consistently brilliant in his work, but Coltrane was versatile. Perhaps it is a limit of the structure of our human minds that causes us to ask such questions, which are perhaps pointless.All I can say is, for a Friday night, Attaining by John Coltrane can take you places that few other pieces of music can possibly do.
Mingus. Coltrane. Genius.
There are more, many more of them. Our world is a better place for the creators!
Thank you._
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