John Coltrane’s 1964 album A Love Supreme was the product of some major soul-searching. In 1957, when the jazz icon was still battling heroin addiction and alcohol, he famously got booted from Miles Davis’s band. Chastened, the great saxophonist kicked his drug habit, attributing his sobriety to a newfound faith in God—hence the name of his subsequent album, a popular success on which he developed his “sheets of sound.”
“It’s an incredible piece of art . . . that allows you to really have an experience,” Speis says. “It’s remarkable to be able to listen to his music and feel that—the spiritual, transformative journey.”
