By the way that's a cute hat, and a smile so hard to resist...

[Will Layman]

"Sphere" was Monk's middle name, but McClintic S in V. was an alto  
player -- and therefore more likely an amalgam of Charlie Parker and  
Ornette Coleman.  Parker, of course, was the great God of bop, a  
mystifyingly great blues player who appears in the Roseland Ballroom  
scene of GR.  Coleman came later, 1959 or so, playing a melodic but  
harmonically open brand of blues-drenched "free jazz", which would  
seem like a revolution that through out the rules of bop.

Always seemed to me that McClintic wasn't any one musician -- more an  
amalgam.  In some ways, he reminds me of some of the West Coast  
musicians of the '50s too, like Gerry Mulligan, who appears  
indirectly in "Entropy".

-- Will Layman

On Dec 10, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Steven wrote:

> 	I always thought Sphere was supposed to be Coltrane.  Something  
> about the sheets of sound, etc was a pretty clear indication.   
> Unless my memory fails me..
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> Does McClintic Sphere in V. stand for Thelonious Monk?
>>
>
> Steven
>
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