"While he was with Miles [Davis], Coltrane was tagged with the phrase 'sheets of sound.' Jazz critic Ira Gitler had first used it. These 'sheets of sound' were multinote hailstorms of dense textures that sound like a simultaneous series of waterfalls. 'His continuous flow of ideas without stopping really hit me,' Gitler said. 'It was almost superhuman. The amount of energy he was using could have powered a spaceship.'"
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Nat Hentoff, New liner notes for Giant Steps (Deluxe edition, September 1997).
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Sheets of sound
Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by DownBeat magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe a new style of jazz by saxophone musician John Coltrane. The term also refers to a period of Coltrane's music between 1958-1960.
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