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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, January 23, 1977

THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 23, 1977

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SUNDAY MAGAZINE

BOOKS


JAN. 10-FEB. 5

Hotjazz from a tortured mind

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COLTRANE by Bill Cole, Mac- only a man possessed with such
millan Co., 264 pp., $12.95 spirit and drive could possibly
By PAUL SHAPIRO play
In John Coltrane, Bill Cole
JOHN COLTRANE left this leads us through the relation-
world nine years ago as a man ships, experiences, and personal
searching, striving, reaching out- h i s t o r y of this artist who
ward and upward toward his evolved, through the turmoil and
God. Religion had become a liv- intensity of his life, into a musi-
iag force in Coltrane's jazz by cian with incredible vision. Col-
the time of his death. In fact, trane's life story is fascinating,
religion and music had become and Cole traces it with clarity
one for 'Trane, and in the final and imagination. He provides a
years of his life, he played as
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ENFORCER .

brief sketch of the saxophonist's for Philadelphia to become a
youth in the small North Caro- professional musician.
lina town, where he lived with. It was in Philadelphia that Col-
his grandfather, a- minister and trane's musical education really
a civil rights worker. The church began - he began playing with
played an important role in Col- sTch eminent jazz artists as
trane's early life, and it was in Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and
church that he discovered music. Thelonius Monk, building toward
He picked up a clarinet at age the powerful music he would ul-
12, began playing an alto saxo- timately create.
phone soon after, and then at However, this was also the
age 18, when his grandfather and period when 'Trane began using
ager18 hen d ,'r'as. and slowly but surely his
father had died, Caltrane set out vl diction to heroin preoccupied
Y mind. He lst jobs with both
C'llesnie a-d Davis. and he be-
S'g-n drinkiig, which only com-
" k ' } , ded 'his difficlilties.
St Coltrgne struggled through
at, ad' which world even-
Tn a s'range twist of fate, he
r-4t McCov Tyner and Jimmy
* Cnrrison, two members of he
/ e.-ihi he was to lead in the;
140's the verv" pe w¢k h
tagddrinkin.g. 'Trnn"
Snr c evn~rienin a metarnornho-
s, and it was at this noint that
l';scommitment to spirituality
Sbecame clear.

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r THT'E ARE many wavys to
1 wri~e about an artist such as
.Tnhn Coltrane, and infortinate-
]T, miih of the material written
&I~otit him has merely critimied
hi.s craftsmanshin and offered
rnrio,*s anecdotes ahotit his rela-

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Cole writes with the fullest
onsideration of the fact that be-
ind Co trane's art was his Phil-
o;ophy, a philosophy which, as
Cole explains. "included a deep,
n almost mystical feeling of
Iye for, and community w.th,
his fellow man." At the center
of this love was his reiationship
with the men and women wvith
whom, he made music, and as
Cole emphasizes throug.out this
book, Coltrane was not only a
great teacher but an avid learn-
er.

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ANN ALFW [![M cc-cr
TONIGHT in the
MODERN LANGUAGES BUILDING
ALICE IN THE CITIES
(WIM WENDERS, 1974)
Alice is a nine-year-old girl whose mother abandons her in
New York with Phillip, a thirty-one-year-old footloose German
journalist traveling the roads of America. Feeling old and
unable to write, Phillip feels his creativity is exhausted and
gets by snapping Polaroid pictures. Getting Alice back to her
family in Europe becomes his new goal. Their arrival there
unfolds the symmetry of their odyssey. The young writer-
director Wenders has a lot to say about language and the
similarities and differences between cultures. "A fine., tightly
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tionshins with co-workers. Cole
has embodied both of these ele-
ments in, this book, but gone
much further, delving into the
psyche, heart, and sol of the
musician, Oftmost imnortance is
that Cole understands Coltrane
as both a musician and a reli-
gious person. Also, he under-
stanfis that both of these aspects
of Coltrane's life are intimately
bound up wi'h his being an Afri-
can-American.
Each chapter of the book is
prefaced with excerpts from the
writings of Fela Sowande, a Ni-
gerian composer and, folklorist.
Sowande's work has primarily
been on the Yorobas of Nigeria,
studying their music mythology,
and religious patterns. Cole uses
these excerpts as stimulus for
this own thoughts, taking the
philosophy of Sowande, offering
it for its own worth, and then in
a highly relevant manner relat-
ing it to the works of John Col-
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Cole himself has been a writer
and observer of jazz over the
past 20 years, and the major
drawback of the book is his oc-
casional over-indulgence in r'elat-
ig nersonal stories of his own
meetinqs with 'Trane and other
r'usicians. Aside from thi3, the
*book is intelligent and ohsi
scted throighont, complete with
diagrams explaining the influ-
ence of Eastern and Western
2floight on Coltrane's music,.ex-
tmnsive musical transcriptions of
his most imnortant nieces, and
-references from various philoso-
phers and isychologists whose
'thiolahts an~nly to 'Trane's work.
Ultimately, Cole's strength lies
in the oiali'v of his understand-
ing for John Coltrane's evol'rion
'as a msiian. Many critics with
less insight turned off -to Col-
trane in his final vears, describ-
ig his music as harsh, his tones
'as ngly. Bt Cole sees the im-
portance in the fury of Coltranie's
plavine- "Often Coltrane used
his music as ar exnression of the
nain that for far too long blacks
habe had to contain, and from
whi-h some relief may be felt
in the simple fact of its finally
being hro"oht out in the ovum
preriselv through the 'ugliness'
of "Trane's tone."
John Coltrane's music was at
~times melodic, and at times hyp-
notic; and in the end he was not
only masterful in his technical
skills but had gone beyond con-
ventional musical forms, to in-
vestigate "all the space that lies
between C and C-sharp."
Soviet exile
hits regime
(Contiued from Page 5)
never be safe in its relations
with it," he stated.
The next morning, Amalrik
would be gone.. He would be
c a r r y i n g his one-man battle
against the Soviet regime to an-
other college campus. He would
remain one of very few who
saw that change was possible
and decided to devote his life-
against all odds-to bring that
change about.

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