John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Top 500 Countdown Update)

The energy on this album is great, but I'm not a big fan of unstructured jazz and would prefer something that actually revolves around a melody instead of being free thought. Years ago I was part of a move in the University of Kentucky English department to bring back a journal that had existed years before. As part of the process to get material for publication we sent out an open call for poetry. None of the poetry submitted that I read was structured to meter, rhyme, or message. It was all abstract language with no metering or structure to the thoughts. Now if you are a genius like Allen Ginsberg you can potentially pull this off, but for the majority of us we can't. I would say the same for free jazz like what is constructed on this album. If you are a genius like Coltrane you can pull it off, but only if you are very very special. Personally I still don't think it is at the same level as other work of his that is more structured, just like I don't believe Ginsberg is in the same league as Robert Frost.