Lucky enough for us (and anyone interested in his music), the man has plenty of other material to study and adore. So, yeah, we didn’t want to cover the same ground here. You’ve got to be quiet, you’ve got to be still to do this.”īefore moving on to our list of Trane’s best 10 albums to own on vinyl, it’s worth noting that we already covered perhaps his most essential record, A Love Supreme, in our first jazz primer. You don’t go to school and sit down and say I know what you’re getting ready to teach me, you know? You sit there and you learn. “If there’s something you don’t understand, you have to go humbly to it. But on that note, I’d like to share this quote from Coltrane himself, as part of this discussion shared by Blank On Blank, because I think it’s important to keep in mind when listening to jazz: Unlike manufactured tunes made for radio (no shots, I love some of ‘em, too), properly digesting the work of John Coltrane does require some work. If it hits you the right way, Coltrane’s music just sticks to your brain, never allowing you to forget bits and pieces of his work much like you’ll always remember the hook of certain pop songs. There are plenty of other gateway artists for jazz, and perhaps even too many to name.
It’s not just that Coltrane personally welcomed me into a world of music that had previously only intimidated me. I’m inclined to go with the last statement. Where does one begin when writing about an artist on the level of John Coltrane? Do you write about his unbelievable influence as the father of spiritual jazz, the sub-genre in which so many fantastic records reside? Or do you talk about the journey that brought him there, one of addiction, recovery, and finding himself in spirituality? Or do you simply say, hey, this man was one of the greatest artists, of any genre, to live on this planet?
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