Listening to Coltrane's cover of "Greensleeves" for the first time. Nine or ten times over the last two days.
It's got a lot of the same lyricism that "My Favorite Things" does, the same modal, kind of raga feel, the same jawdropping glissando sound to his solos as he shifts the soprano sax up into hyperdrive--no, *through* hyperdrive, quickly tasting n-space and then bringing it back down into standard topology again.
Conjecture: If he had lived long enough Coltrane probably would have covered "Pure Imagination" too.
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