Many thanks to everyone who recently voted for their favorite John Coltrane albums as part of Albumism’s readers’ poll series! Check out the consensus results & rankings below and stay tuned for our next readers’ poll coming soon.
Albumism Readers’ Poll Results (3,895 Total Votes):
#1 | A Love Supreme | 1965 | 628 votes (16% of total)
#2 | Giant Steps | 1960 | 554 votes (14% of total)
#3 | Blue Train | 1958 | 430 votes (11% of total)
#4 | My Favorite Things | 1961 | 373 votes (10% of total)
#5 | Ballads | 1963 | 302 votes (8% of total)
#6 | Crescent | 1964 | 279 votes (7% of total)
#7 | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | 1963 | 235 votes (6% of total)
#8 | Africa/Brass | 1961 | 164 votes (4% of total)
#9 | John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman | 1963 | 117 votes (3% of total)
#10 | Olé Coltrane | 1962 | 91 votes (2% of total)
Other Albums Receiving Votes:
#11 | Coltrane’s Sound (1964) (75)
#12 | Lush Life (1961) (68)
#13 | Soultrane (1958) (58)
#14 | Impressions (1963) (50)
#15 | Coltrane (1962) (Impulse! Records LP) (46)
#16 | Meditations (1966) (43)
#17 | First Meditations (for quartet) (1977) (37)
#18 | Coltrane Plays the Blues (1962) (32)
#19 | The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965) (30)
#20 | Coltrane (1957) (Prestige Records LP) (26)
#21 | Ascension (1966) (25)
#22 | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (2018) (23)
#23 | Sun Ship (1971) (20)
#24(T) | Kulu Sé Mama (1967) (19)
#24(T) | Interstellar Space (1974) (19)
#26 | Stardust (1963) (15)
#27(T) | Coltrane Jazz (1961) (14)
#27(T) | Dakar (1963) (14)
#27(T) | Expression (1967) (14)
#30 | Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1963) (12)
#31 | John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (1958) (11)
#32(T) | The Cats (1959) (8)
#32(T) | Settin’ the Pace (1961) (8)
#32(T) | Black Pearls (1964) (8)
#35(T) | Om (1968) (7)
#35(T) | Blue World (2019) (7)
#37(T) | Standard Coltrane (1962) (6)
#37(T) | The Last Trane (1966) (6)
#37(T) | Transition (1970) (6)
#40 | The Avant-Garde (1966) (4)
#41(T) | Cosmic Music (1968) (3)
#41(T) | Stellar Regions (1995) (3)
#43 | Jazz Way Out (1958) (2)
#44(T) | Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (1959) (1)
#44(T) | The Believer (1964) (1)
#44(T) | Bahia (1965) (1)
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