Date:	17-Mar-2001 16:33:44
From:	Gerard Cox (stacked4th@hotmail.com)
	I think maybe you would have heard a solo saxophone record at some point... I imagine Trane would have been open to exploring electronics, at least in terms of providing a backdrop for his soloing...maybe a wind-controller but maybe not. Trane was as musically curious as anyone and I'm sure he would have at least checked the new technology out. I could definitely see him doing some more orchestral-oriented records, whether with strings or synths behind...Africa-Brass was a template for larger ensemble work that Trane probably had further plans for... As for collaborations that may have been on the horizon, something tells me he might have hooked up with Sun Ra... via the John Gilmore connection. That would have been very interesting... Hope nobody finds this what if talk about Trane, RIP,-offensive. If you're like me though you can't help but think about what ELSE there MIGHT have been, even as you should ask for NO MORE than what he gave...

 

Date:	21-Mar-2001 02:05:01
From:	Vladimir Korovkin (vkorovkin@vitpc.com)
	Coltrane excelled in picking up the major developments in jazz since the ground level and going ahead of them. So I guess he'd be the funckiest avant-gardist in mid 1970s (stealing Tacuma from Ornette ;)).

 

Date:	25-Apr-2001 05:42:07
From:	Don Rogerson (lecozmo@yougotemail.com)
	I can definitely picture Trane in the fussion setting of the later half of the sixty's. I have often wondered what he would have sounded like with a wah-wah petal. Maby a flanger as well. Knowing his obsession with finding new sounds I belive it would be almost a give that he would include electric instruments in his band at some point. I'm sure he would have found a different way to do it than Miles did, because he always found a way of taking the tecniques of others and using them in his own unique way. Even to those who didn't like his music it was always unmistakably Trane.