pat loughery

I think I can begin to say that I can now hear Coltrane “praying” through his horn. The closest analogy here, it seems to me, is the wild range we find in the biblical psalms: lament, complaint, anguish, even paranoia, but right alongside utter thanksgiving and ecstatic praise.

From the Forword for God’s Mind in That Music: Theological Exploration Through the Music of John Coltrane