Ranking the Albums: John Coltrane 

First time I've ever heard Johnny Coltrane. Love Ya!

Afro-Blue Impressions is a superb album and possibly the best version of "My Favorite Things".

Don't miss the ones we've done previously!

I promise I've watched 'em all Pete, but I need more!@@seaoftranquilityprog

it's an hour!

There is no Coltrane album called Naima to my knowledge

Thank you!

Yes, the deluxe 2-CD set of A Love Supreme has in its first gatefold-ish open the letter and drawing (but only the above-the-crease portion, cuts off the rest of the sax) and the poem, but also reprints the words in more easily-readable size in its booklet. But certainly not LP-poster size. :)

I feel the same way.

I just bought that album used for $4. Insane playing.

Thanks for the shout out for the Last Restaurant. Glad you like it!

Coltrane should have sounded like Coltrane….Mel Collins doesn’t even factor here, and I love Mel Collins.

Tips from the top!

The fact that you would even question why a legend like Coltrane is deserving of a ranking episode tells me all that I need to know about you. Go troll somewhere else.

I am 100% sure you are in the minority. An album like Ascension would scare most newbies away from jazz forever.

"Ballads" is a beautiful album. I love it, when McCoy plays standards and shows his lyrical side. There's nothing wrong with being into the avantgarde stuff ofc, we're all different and respond to different things musically and that's a good thing, but perhaps give the classic, melodic jazz another chance somewhere along the road.

@@sotdude7 You are likely 100% right, but in my case what finally got me to dip a toe into the waters is a scene in a SF movie… & I might mention the kind of SF movie that most people wouldn’t want to watch because, for one thing it has a discussion on Free-Jazz in it. Anyways, it was a scene in a SF movie with music playing that would turn off most listeners. One character in the movie (part of the 97%, or whatever, majority) makes a distasteful face & says, “what’s with this music!” The other character says he likes music like this because you can’t predict where the musician is going to go. The scene intrigued me. After the movie I got on the net & dug. I learnt the song they listened to is Coltrane’s, “India.” I wanted to hear the whole thing, so I ordered a set of 5 albums that had “India” on one. Most of the albums were safe & traditional, which I found no interest in. Of course Ballads was one of those. I reacted the strongest to it. It represented everything I’ve always rejected about Jazz in the past, & see no reason to change. From tasting those first 5 Coltrane albums, it was the few radical, non-traditional tracks, especially “India,” that made me think I want to keep putting my foot into these waters. So that’s where I’m at. With a foot in the Jazz waters, slowly going deeper, still very unsure about what I’m getting into. I like your comment that the music is scary to most newbies. The Jazz guy who appeals to me most is Sun-Ra. His music is really fit to scare off most people. I listen doing my best to understand what is going on, and it draws me in deeper & deeper. If Sun-Ra was alive he would say that’s what his music is about: not understanding, but trying to understand. For me, I don’t want to get fully immersed in jazz. With Jazz I do want to get past being scared off from it, or from any kind of music. What’s strange is scary, with Jazz I’m learning how to understand strangeness & get past the fear. So far I only got a foot in, maybe I’m up to getting my other foot wet. How far in will I go? I can’t say.

@@JarrettMehldau Maybe somewhere on the road ahead. Who can say what will develop. At this point I’m still keeping away from the wider world of Jazz & taking a path in it.

Ridiculous comment…there is a reason why Miles and Coltrane are legends. You don’t like them, fine, but as you can see by the comments here, plenty of people love this stuff.

Mel Collins can run circles around Coltrane. Coltrane if he was a Rock guitarist would be Holdsworth-Mel would be Uli Jon Roth! I'll take Uli and Mell Every day and twice on Sundays!