Asked recently by a friend to suggest the most dionysiac work of art I could remember. My personal vote was for something, anything from Coltrane. It could be any of dozens of his later compositions. I perceive him to have mastered (conjured? unleashed?) an art form which was wild, orgiastic and spontaneous while exhibiting a rejection of discipline and rationality. The later Coltrane was the best soundtrack to the mid-20th century that I’ve come across.
