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#66 John Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' (1965)

John Coltrane’s masterpiece. Jazz records have been few and far between on this list so it’s refreshing to run into this one again. I heard it for the first time last time around and it immediately grabbed me. Recorded in one session, each member of the quartet seems to be running their own race. It honestly sounds as if they’re all reading from different pages of their music scores, but at the same time it completely works. That’s Freeform Jazz for you.

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