With all the current debate over Scottish devolution, it's
perhaps timely that I came across this particular gem from the pages of Jazz
Journal in 1962.
Following on from an extended critique of Coltrane and the
"avant-garde" in the pages of JJ, reader Wellington Holliday of
Glasgow weighed in with his own experience of hearing Trane and Dolphy when
they toured the UK
the previous autumn.
As was well-documented elsewhere in the press at the time,
the tour met a mixed reception, with bemused reviews appearing in Melody Maker
and Jazz News.
However, I'll wager that Coltrane wasn't expecting to be
accosted at the side of the stage by a disgruntled, slightly pissed,
gobby Scotsman...
Simon Spillett.
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