John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk Music is a vehicle to communicate our ideas into sound. John Coltrane is in colossal jazz giant who was a gifted composer, band leader, improviser, and whom mastered the saxophone unlike any before him. He could play sheets of sounds with incomparable speed and dexterity, that rivals Charlie parker and the lyrical lines of Coleman Hawkins. Coltrane was one of the pioneers in bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz and Avant-Garde music. The collaboration between John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk was undeniably unforgettable and left a lasting impact on music. In 1957 after becoming sober from narcotics and alcohol. Trane had the opportunity to join Thelonious Monk’s band when his career and psyche needed it most. During this time John Coltrane was looking for something different. He had just released his solo album “Blue Train” full of lush blues harmonies, unpopular song forms, and original tunes expect for the standard I’m Old Fashioned”. This album was a very big step forward in Trane’s unique sound, but nowhere near his music’s end result. After being fired from Miles Davis’s band, like many before him was forced to find new work. Finding a new …show more content…
Monk really was the guru who lead Coltrane to his true path through hours of study into the horn and learning to use atonality in very tasteful and comprehendible Trane was able to channel his being into the instrument itself. Mastering Monk’s expressionism and compositional techniques he was able to channel a new kind of music that can only be described as a spiritual experience “A love supreme”. This masterpiece made the world see John Coltrane in a different light rather as a cool jazz, hard-bop player. Instead as someone who is seen as a pioneer in modern, experimental, and avant-garde music all equally valid vehicles of