http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:43:27 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/03/195457.php#comment-631480 It's a darn good article! It catches the spirit of the 60s, the revolution in the social air that gave the music a home. There has been a lot of, and in fact most of the articles dealing with Trane's social and spiritual connectedness with the Hippies, and it is good that people know that. But, his music was very profoundly influenced by and influencing of the spiritual lives of those of us in the Black community who were in a state of open rebellion, and many of us who became Marxist dogmatic materialists had become atheists. The loss of the ghostly God - the unbodily body - was a loss of spirituality. As I said we were dogmatic materialists. But, Trane's piece "Spirituals" performed Live at the Village Vanguard enabled us to merge with the spirituality if pantheism, as Art as Hegel said was the empirical side of the Region of the Absolute Spirit. Trane's "Psalm" poem connection with the final movement of the Suite, as did the music itself in A Love Supreme took us into a pantheistic spirituality. This is to say, a spirituality that comprise nature, as the Absolute is not just Subject, but Substance as well (to do an inversion of Hegel and Feuerbach re Spinoza)and Trane, Alice and Pharaoh provided a Pantheism that we felt, as well as rationally understood. Lil Joe Los Angeles 631480@blogcritics.org Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:43:27 EDT