Some retrospective reruns for the Jazz master’s 100th birthday (and an accompaniment to Miles Davis at 100, with whom Coltrane started his career as a sideman, before launching into the wild unknown himself):

–John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme [Annotated Readings]

–On Free Jazz: Coleman, Coltrane, and Joseph Smith

–On John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” and The Canonization of Christmas Songs

–On Ghosts, by Albert Ayler (important influence on Coltrane)

–PHARAOH SANDERS’ THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN, ALMA 42:8, AND ETHER 12:6 (important Coltrane acolyte)

–Attica Blues, by Archie Shepp [Annotated Readings] (equally important Coltrane acolyte)

–On the Evangelical Impulse in MC5’s Kick Out the Jams (the singer Rob Tyner named himself after Coltrane’s pianist on A Love Supreme—meaning John Coltrane even had an influence on all Punk Rock to follow)