Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
I know it's overused, but I still treasure Kind Of Blue like nothing else. Also, Coltrane, while an amazing sax player, got kinda crazy later on. "Sheets of sound" isn't really my thing. Just another example: don't do drugs.
This is by no means an advocation of drug use, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a Jazz or blues player from that era that didn't use some form of drug. Most of their music didn't suffer; it was their lives that did. Most of the best players died in rather pitiful conditions because of addiction.