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❝ "Davis and Coltrane, not by chance, use modality to recover, within a context until then mainly characterized by the dialectic between European and African musical traditions, elements of the Asian, oriental one: sometimes borrowed - in the case of Davis - from the Spanish civilization, sometimes inspired - as in the case of John Coltrane - by Indian music. But in this, Jazz also manages to achieve a sort of historical reunion with the 'oriental' origins of Western music: Greek and then Gregorian modes, from which the modern major-minor conception was born, in turn come from ancient Asian modes. The curious fact is that the theoretical basis of this work, having great anthropological significance, carried out by Coltrane, was derived by the colored saxophonist from the study of the treatise Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicholas Slonimsky, a Russian composer and musicologist who emigrated to the United States..."
❝ I witnessed the extraordinary concert of a guy who, at 28, can easily be considered a living legend;
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