13. John & Alice ColtraneCosmic Music
If you want just one more that’s really important to me, then I would have to say Coltrane’s Cosmic Music. But that’s not really being fair either because when I think about my younger history, things that have had such an influence on me, that are still having an influence on me now, I have to go back groups like Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul, featuring a group called the Bar-Kays. It’s like super funk but with a message. The recordings of Sly and the Family Stone. Karma, Jewels of Thought and Black Unity, all by Pharoah Sanders, had a huge impact on me. Or Yusef Lateef’s Live At Pep’s, with James Black on drums, which was one of the first records I ever had that I listened to, that had jazz musicians other than like Dave Brubeck, playing in odd metres.
