Word: trane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...
...this is fiscal proof of a weather change in the $2.4 billion-a-year air-conditioning industry, whose major producers include Trane, York, Fedders, Worthington and Westinghouse as well as Carrier. No longer is it a business that seems important only in July and August. Syracuse-based Carrier, biggest company in the business, is flourishing year-round-and so are most of its competitors. Already in the cold first quarter of 1965, said Bynum, his company's new orders are up 22%, and profits, which were $11 million last year...
...capable of greater power and lyricism than all but a couple of his contemporaries. Giant Steps Atlantic 1311) and My Favorite Things (Atlantic 1361) are two landmarks of his as-yet incompleted evolution. One of these contemporaries would surely be Miles Davis under whom both Sonny and Trane have played. Without being able to pin it down, I think that Miles has added a totally new dimension, a new esthetic if you will, to improvising. Part of the novelty seems to reside in a cultivation of sound and of melody virtually unfettered by rigid adherence to chord changes, a sort...