F or this blog entry I thought I would extract some further 'nuggets' from one of the Jazz publications I've researched and purchased for these blogs. Jazz Journal from November 1966 was the source for a previous blog entry "Coltrane & Coleman - a Critical View from 1966", in which Martin Williams comes up to speed on A Love Supreme to Ascension, Coleman's At the Golden Circle records and The Avant Garde - Coltrane and Don Cherry playing Coleman numbers. The publication has some other articles and reviews, which at the end of 1966, is interesting given the time in the evolution of the "New Music". The British Jazz critic Stanley Dance in his two page entry of notes of wisdom includes a couple of contemporary quotes from two sides of the debate, from two well known musicians. "But I don't want to hear pleasant music today. I want to hear screaming and hollering and picking and biting. That's what the world's about today. An...
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