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Date Posted: 05:48:23 05/09/03 Fri
Author: E. S. Anderson
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 24.197.185.109
Subject: Naima

I, for one, am very pleased that Lane and company have performed Coltrane's "Naima;" I would be even more pleased -- though -- if it were included on a future Lane/Hellborg release. Many musicians, but here specifically guitarists, claim the 'Trane as an influence and yet for all the wonders they produce (Holdworth, Santana, Sharrock, et al) the relationship is a distant one at best.

But not so with Lane. Guitarists are occasionally praised for a "singing tone" and a "vocal quality" to their lines, and while both of those phrases of praise can and do apply to Lane's playing his rendering of "Naima" contains a quality that I've not heard ascribed to any other guitarist. Breathing. That is, not only does his playing contain the microtonal inflections and nuances of speech; and possess a singing vocal/saxophone-like timbre as well, but with the volume swells, control of attack, and dynamics it seems to actually breath. What Holdsworth attempted with a breathing tube on a SynthAxe, Lane seems to achieve with his fingers.

It is not a performance preserved on an album proper, and Lane has never singled himself out as a Coltrane disciple (anymore than he is influenced and inspired by oh-so-many others), but it strikes my ears as amongst the most realized materialization of Coltrane as a guitarist. And it is dealt with so nonchalantly. My words and attempt to express my joy and amazement at this are clumsy and inefficient, but they are -- at the moment -- the best I can muster. To simplify: they must return to this -- or something like this -- on an album proper. I ask not for a whole album along these lines, but the perfomance is so sublime and this remains a relatively undocumented aspect of Lane's playing that it would be blasphemous not to address it on a proper release at some time . . .

Or perhaps the rest of you were not so impressed?

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