[ggraziano]

Can't say I get A Love Supreme at all. I have it by Coltrane, and also by Santana & McLaughlin, and find it barely listenable. I nominate Coltrane's "Ballads", though. It's beautifully accessible. Other favorites: The Eddie Daniels Collection, Diana Krall's All For You (A faithful & loving tribute to the Nat Cole Trio), and Gerald Albright and Will Downing's Pleasures Of The Night. This last contains some regrettable schlock, but it is redeemed by their tour de force rendering of The Nearness Of You. Quite simply the most sensuous cover I've heard in decades. Finally, here's an obscure regional performer you'll love: Nancy Kelly's Singin' & Swingin'. Kelly, an upstate New Yorker, is a fine, pure singer, and her arrangements are wonderful.

[martin gibson]

Can't say I get A Love Supreme at all.

Dude, that's what makes the world go 'round, isn't it? A Love Supreme opened my ears like nothing else I had heard before or since.

Granted, its not the disc I would want to run home and give a listen to the first thing in the door every day....but there are there have been times in my life when circumstances called for NOTHING LESS.

This is probably the reason I dig Kind of Blue, and can't listen to Bitches' Brew.

peaceloveandharmonydude.....