Stylistically influenced by the Free Jazz of Ornette Coleman, its definitive recording featured McCoy Tyner on piano and its composer on tenor saxophone.
Instead of directly setting the text of the central prayer to music, the composer interpreted it sonically in the final movement of this work. Opening with a gong, the bass establishes the four-note theme that climaxes in a chant to end the first movement. Nominally a four-part suite for quartet, its concluding sections, "Persuance" and "Psalm", form a continuum. Stylistically influenced by the Free Jazz of Ornette Coleman, its definitive recording featured McCoy Tyner on piano and its composer on tenor saxophone. For ten points, what was this spiritual 1964 work of John Coltrane?
Instead of directly setting the text of the central prayer to music, the composer interpreted it sonically in the final movement of this work.
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