India, Feb. 23 -- "Songs of mystery /Take your breath away /That's how it feels to hear Coltran play /He'll lift you up high /Like the sunny day /That's how it feels to hear Coltrane play"
When I heard those lines a couple of weeks ago, in a song called Coltrane by the band Cymande, it so perfectly described how I felt when I first heard the music of that jazz genius ages ago that it was almost eerie.
Coltrane and the album it's on, Renascence, mark the full-scale comeback of Cymande, after about a decade of releasing bits and bobs of new music.
Cymande (pronounced sih-mahn-day; a creole word for dove) are one of the earliest British funk bands, formed more than 50 years ago.
They've had a roller-coaster of a career. In 1972, they relea...