Matthew J. Miszewski wrote:
(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane and listen to it carefully about 20 times. There are layers and
I have a very intelligent friend who loves jazz and has several thousand LP's; he says Coltrane did some really good stuff early on, then went kinda crazy... I bought some 'trane albums in the 1960's. My impression was that they were very intellectual, or very technical, but not highly musical (my opinion, and I love music). [snip] BTW, the person who claimed that Jazz was the more significant contribution of African-Americans in America is very short-sighted. Jazz is just one expression of a highly intelligent and complex group of people. You should hear some of the gorgeous songs of South Africa as sung by Miriam Makeba, for instance. Also, rock-n-roll emerged from blues, R&B, etc., and is profoundly dominant in Western culture over all other types of music, regardless of what you think of its quality.