I think A Love Supreme may have been the first jazz album I ever bought. Of course, by the time I got it, it was on CD. The reason it interested me is that I was a huge fan of Spike Lee. His 1989 film Do the Right Thing is still my favorite movie ever. His follow up, Mo Better Blues, starring Denzel Washington as a saxophonist in NYC wasn't all that memorable, but this album was the soundtrack for Spike while he wrote the screenplay. He even wanted to name the movie A Love Supreme, but Coltrane's widow wouldn't allow it because of all of the cursing in the film. Spike didn't press it, because she did allow him to use one of the compositions from the album and I am sure he didn't want to blow that.
You may notice that the young French lady looking at the records in this blog's main photo is checking out a Coltrane record.
This album was my introduction to jazz, and it is hard to think of too many better beginnings. I am far from a jazz expert or even, really, from an enthusiast, but I did eventually try to school myself in all the essentials. That wouldn't come until 1995 though, when rock music went through a couple year period of, if not sucking, let's say, mediocrity. This is back when Third Eye Blind was a big deal. As Spike would say, 'nuff said.
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