Re- GRGR(5) -- on Parker and Coltrane

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

>Nice post, Will.  One comment struck me:
>
>  Bird finds a way of turning white
>exploitation of jazz on its head by expanding possibilities rather than limiting
>them.  He "steals back" jazz by taking a dopey pop song and making it into
>sophisticated art on his own terms. 

Didn't Coltrane do the same thing w/ his classic version of "My Favorite Things" 
(surely one of the dopiest tunes ever written, from THE dopiest musical ever 
created); do you think the political subtext was the same for Coltrane in the (was 
it?) early 60's as it had been for Parker?  Does that imply that Bird's theft was caught 
and restolen back? 

john m