Wow, a church in San Francisco that plays A Love Supreme. Quite a compliment to the lasting value of his music. I second all the praise about A Love Supreme. In addition to A Love Supreme, my favorite Coltrane albums are the recently issued Coltrane and Miles Davis box set, Giant Steps, Monk-Trane, Blue Trane, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Bags and Trane, My Favorite Things, and John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. I am not as fond of his later more atonal recordings.
Coltrane moves me because of the incredible creativity of his chordal improvisations off of repeated melodies (before his more atonal period); the unique, penetratingly beautiful tone of his horn; and the depth of emotion in his music.
Several postings have remarked about John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. I love that recording also. Another Johnny Hartman record you may wish to check out is Johnny Hartman, Once in Every Life. I think it is quite great.
The first Jazz recordings I heard, in the mid 70s, were at a friends house. He had exactly three Jazz records: Monk-Trane, The Louis Armstrong Story Vol. 3 (the Hot Sevens), and Clifford Browns At Basin Street. Not a bad way to be introduced to the music.
Coltrane moves me because of the incredible creativity of his chordal improvisations off of repeated melodies (before his more atonal period); the unique, penetratingly beautiful tone of his horn; and the depth of emotion in his music.
Several postings have remarked about John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. I love that recording also. Another Johnny Hartman record you may wish to check out is Johnny Hartman, Once in Every Life. I think it is quite great.
The first Jazz recordings I heard, in the mid 70s, were at a friends house. He had exactly three Jazz records: Monk-Trane, The Louis Armstrong Story Vol. 3 (the Hot Sevens), and Clifford Browns At Basin Street. Not a bad way to be introduced to the music.