Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously.


Hi Everyone,
Listen I have a favor to ask, and those of you better educated in Jazz can help me.

I always have a tough time listening to John Coltrane. It's like he's talking a different language.
Can any of you point me to recordings I should listen to on Tidal or Quboz or whatever that set me up to better appreciate the man?


Thank you for the musical education.

Best,

E
erik_squires

Showing 1 response by rpearlstein53

I have been passionately listening to jazz music -- primarily hard bop and fusion -- for almost fifty years.  I have enormous John Coltrane and Miles Davis catalogs.  Although there are some Miles Davis avant-garde titles that "speak another language" to me, I have never, to paraphrase Will Rogers, met a John Coltrane title that I did not like, indeed, love.  Put quite simply, the man is the greatest musician in history.  But he just might not be everyone's cup of tea.  So I will not recommend any titles to you.  I will state, however, that A Love Supreme is without a doubt Coltrane's best work.