{"id":5811,"date":"2022-06-11T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:45:38","slug":"music-spirituality-saint-john-the-church-of-coltrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5811","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Spirituality? Saint John &amp; the Church of Coltrane!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"624\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7503-624x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7503-624x1024.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7503-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7503.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Church of Coltrane!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst engaging in a spot of FB banter\/lurking, this topic somehow hove into view, along with a parallel thread in which \u2018Trane was compared with that other modern deity, Elvis (Baz Luhrmann has a biopic on the latter coming out soon, God help us!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wondered, did the Oops, er\u2026 oops? I mean the <em>Pope<\/em> (I love that predictive rendered Pope as Oops!), know of this beatification?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-768x1030.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-1146x1536.jpg 1146w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-1527x2048.jpg 1527w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7528-scaled.jpg 1909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gadzooks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bit of Googling revealed that John\u2019s elevation to sainthood was actually a <em>demotion from godhead<\/em>! And not via the \u2018purple inflatability\u2019 of the Oops. Oh no! It was the AOC, or African Orthodox Church (of America) that sanctioned this sanctifying: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018In September 1982, Coltrane was officially canonized as a saint by the AOC.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Source, NPR. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/23\/915846867\/five-decades-on-an-eclectic-church-preaches-the-message-of-john-coltrane?t=1654948578064\">Read more here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7526-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5834\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7526-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7526-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7526-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7526.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u2018Trane, feelin\u2019 the spirit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a great deal of John Coltrane\u2019s music. And I also dig a great deal of Alice Coltrane as well. She was a super-spiritual sort as well. It\u2019s kind of cool, as well as downright weird, that \u2018A Love Supreme\u2019 has become a kind of hymn and regular service at the church that bears his name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it all totally understandable. John and Alice have made music with tremendous emotional and psychic or spiritual power. But these are vexed terms and ideas, for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not going to say much about it all here and now. Just observe that these things are whatever they may be. They exist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7529.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5813\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7529.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7529-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7529-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7529-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luaka Bop\u2019s fairly recent Alice release.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst engaging in a spot of FB banter\/lurking, this topic somehow hove into view, along with a parallel thread in which \u2018Trane was compared with that other modern deity, Elvis (Baz Luhrmann has a biopic on the latter coming out soon, God help us!) I wondered, did the Oops, er\u2026 oops? I mean the Pope &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Spirituality? 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