Happy John Coltrane's Birthday!

Some might say, pop on your copy of Giant Steps or A Love Supreme, but I love Interstellar Space, so I'm sticking with it.

If you want a loving variation on Space, there's Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian's marvelous Interstellar Space Revisited. Or if you want to keep it theoretically local, check out the gorgeous version of "Seraphic Light" from Eyvind Kang and Michael Bisio's MBEK, released on MPLS' own Meniscus Records.

Or, if you're in San Francisco, visit the Church of Saint John Coltrane. Or in LA, go see Mike Watt, as devoted an acolyte as there ever was. A love supreme, indeed.