“Ascension (Coltrane’s modal piece), where is the chorus? It requires a different set of devices to build the tension. McCoy works with melodic motifs. He plays with an idea and has the space to play with it in. Great bebop players were also using motifs, but something about the free jazz setting allowed him to pursue those ideas, well more freely.” – Mark Ribot on McCoy Tyner
( Have become bit of a cliche in rock guitar solo where you have to build up to a 'climax' at end of your solo with screaming high notes or played super fast! Why not take another path and pursue your solo as a journey with many mini climaxes throughout the solo...or eschewing the notion of climax altogether and simply go on a musical journey? I cant really get into this free jazz stuff too much in one sitting but you can certainly hear emotions of pain and anguish in Ascension...there is no carefully calculated 'climax' as such as simply a display of pure emotion...kinda like how Hendrix described the Vietnam War sonically with the guitar in Star Spangled Spanner - Ed)
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