Coltrane/Coleman Collab.

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is there any truth behind a "John Coltrane Meets Ornette Coleman" session? i need to get to the bottom of this, a friend of mine went to a record store and the clerk flat-out lied to him. he said that the only thing ornette ever did with coltrane was an albert ayler tribute album, but ayler died in 1970 and coltrane died in '67.

― ERIC LASKA (Ricky Ben-Udi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

According to Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life, a tape does exist of an informal jam session involving both Coltrane and Coleman as well as an unspecified "Rich White Friend" on guitar (Lennon? Lou Reed?), but no more ever seems to have been heard of this.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the clerk was confusing Ornette's string arrangements on Alice Coltrane's UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS...

― doug watson (solid air), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

There's the Coltrane/Cherry "The Avant Garde" album, which is Coltrane with a bunch of Coleman's associates and includes Coleman compositions, but not the man himself.

― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

For a while I read this as Costello/Coleman Collab. and felt real bad.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

The Avant Garde is a great record.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

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