Greg Tate on John Coltrane

This piece by Greg Tate is extremely well-written.
While Tate is a bit of a Black racist, overall, his
points are finely articulated and make a lot of sense.
Of course the surpassing irony for the melanin is
destiny crowd is that (all due respect to Branford and
Ravi) the two living saxophonists who most genuinely
channel the spirit and particulars of late Trane are 2
white guys, 60-year-old Liebman and 68-year-old
Charles Lloyd. However, Tate is right that the
passion and urgency we all grew up with, the idea of
leaving EVERYTHING ON THE FLOOR when you played is
unfashionable and even vaguly embarrassing in the
raised-eyebrow, singer, concept and gimmick-driven
jazz world of today. His description of Trane as the voice of God has always resonated with this confirmed non-subscriber to the major theisms.