Being Influenced By A Masterpiece
Many were influenced by John Coltrane’s Album: A Love Supreme such as American Hippies. Those who’s musical works were influenced by this album consisted of The Byrds, Carlos Santana, Joshua Redman, U2, and John McLaughlin. There were around 500,00 copies sold, the most albums sold of John Coltrane’s music, causing this album to be the highlight of his musical career. There were many different opinions formed on this album as well when it came down to interpreting his music. Some saw it as hymn-like modern jazz, others as contemporary classical jazz and some saw it as mix of jazz and rock music.