Coltrane is breaking free of the turmoil and glides down to earthly realities where Miles can handle the transfer. Miles comes on exhausted from the energy spent translating the logic of Coltrane’s solo and it takes a few bars for him to regain, once again, the confidence of his own instincts which now collaborates with, or, may even now be born from the Coltrane performance - it is all one now and when Miles blow his last note, the rhythm section, alone, closed the curtains.
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and teacher wrote once, that he seek to do with the English language what African American jazz musician had done with European instruments – mole and bend them until these instrument could tell their saga in an epic universal language. Nowhere in the annals of music is that statement clearer than in John Coltrane’s performance in Teo. Perhaps this is why he is one of President Obama’s favorite musicians.
Note: This recording is available on YouTube.
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