Thursday, June 17, 2004
Managed to see the last 20 minutes of last nights TV program on John Coltrane and was amazed to find out the following nuggets of music trivia:
1/ His masterpiece, A Love Supreme, is a prayer that 'Trane wrote after finally quitting heroin - each syllable of the prayer is spelt out with a note on the saxophone.
2/ Other smack addicts have apparently quit on the spot after hearing A Love Supreme. Maybe Pete Libertine should give it a go. Expect The Libs to venture into Jazz Odyssey if he does.
3/ He died from Liver Cancer rather than an LSD overdose as I had always been lead to believe.
All in all an interesting piece of TV – well done BBC.
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