Paleface Pynchon?

[Eric D. Dixon]

matt mitchell wrote:
>I understand the point you're trying to make, but for this jazz musician, it 
>is doing a disservice to Pynchon to compare it to a Coltrane solo, which for 
>me doesn't have an iota of the knowing references, continuity, and structure 
>that GR does; I mean that mroe as a testament to GR's accomplishment than 
>Coltrane's lack thereof.  Actually I really don't think there's anything in 
>jazz that has this, except for maybe Keith Jarrett's solo concerts or
Anthony 
>Braxton's quartet concerts from the 1980's.

For my money, Henry Threadgill comes pretty close...

Eric D. Dixon

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