When you examine the head of Giant Steps, it really isn’t that complex. The complexity comes from the improvisation on top of the head. Jazz and hip hop or similarly structured in the sense that they revolve around soloist playing on top of a repeated melody. In hip hop that melody is the beat, and in jazz that melody is the head. While i don’t know how one would transcribe a rap, that seems to be a more apt comparison to coltrane’s playing.
For some reason jazz is held as the standard of sophisticated music, while hip hop is scoffed at in reality the origins and structures that formed each aren’t that different. In fact i believe if miles davis were alive today he would be performing on rap albums all the time.

I completely disagree sean. You can’t compare such an exceptional piece of art like jazz to the bullshit that lil wayne puts out.

The structure of coltranes piece not only strays far away from the limitations of key but also time signature.
And you cant compare the structure of jazz to rap just because it is built off of “A soloist playing over a beat” because the “beat” in jazz is more than a simplified single bass note over a repetitive series of “boom…clap…boom…clap”
Jazz is fucking sophistocated, regardless, miles davis and coltrane were probably higher than lil wayne was when he freestyled his “solo” to a milli. And still they broke the barriers and adlibbed from complex chord structures.

And regardless of all this. Black musicians have sold their souls down the gutter, even from motown, atleast a black man used to be able to sing and build poetry about love. Now we have songs about straight retarded vanity. Applebottom jeans, boots wit the fur, alcohol, money. Every one is motivated by the most vain reasons…