John Coltrane "Alabama"

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane lately. Don't know why, I just am. Maybe it's because it fits. The music, the sound, the feel, the depth fits the times we live in. Coltrane expresses with a saxophone the essence of life itself: Joy and Melancholy. Coltrane is a great joy to listen to, especially when he creates an almost free-form sound while retaining a melody. That is Joy. But the sound, the depth of his sound, there you find the blues, you hear Melancholy made into musical notes. Coltrane, gone since the height of the '60s, the Summer of Love, fits the times in which we live now, a time oddly similar to the 1960s with all it remarkable change; we too now live in a time of rapid change, a time of fear and loss, a time of freedom and overwhelming choice, a lot of love and a lot of hate, war and peace, great happiness, great sadness, lots of extremes and extremists. And life goes on, day after day. Joy and Melancholy.