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Old 08-12-2008, 08:17 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Giant Steps is considered one of, if not the greatest, jazz albums, so it is difficult not to credit it as Coltrane's best. However, A Love Supreme is my favorite Coltrane album. A true testament of his brilliance.
A Love Supreme Is my fave too. These three albums are distinctly different. Giant Steps is very much what most people come to associate with coltrane's style: slightly free-form and very "modal". Blue Train is really bluesy and probably the most accessible of all his work. A Love Supreme is beyond definition, very spiritual and transcendental.
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