[LEMONS] 10.11.2001
Jazz, I used to hate jazz. I used to hate girls too. Somethings you have to age a little bit to appreciate. when I did start listening to jazz, it was dixieland and ragtime stuff. My tastes matured, slowly but steadily, and I began to appreciate more and more of it. I'd read about Coltrane, heard Chuck D namecheck him, but I didn't knwo the man's stuff. So I went out and bought Giant Steps (this was my freshman year of college) and promptly decided I didn't like Coltrane... But the notes stuck in my head, and I listened again. And again. And soon enough, I was sitting alone in my room with all the lights out listening to every Coltrane CD I could get my hands on, jonesing for the live stuff. The Church of St. John Coltrane may have moved out of my neighborhood, but it still dwells in my heart. He and Miles are as contemporary and important today as when they were recording. Even the Chron thinks so.
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