[jyl]

What Coltrane albums do you already have? IMO you should build a Coltrane collection from his important albums, before considering these box sets.

The albums have cohesion, are a picture of Coltrane at a particular stage of his development. He was a restless, searching, exploring musician whose sound was constantly changing, and part of the pleasure of listening to Coltrane is hearing that journey. The Coltrane of Blue Train is very different from the Coltrane of Crescent, is very different from the Coltrane of Ascension or of A Love Supreme.

The box sets, I just glanced at the song lists, seem like the thing to get if you are trying to fill in random holes in what is already a pretty solid Coltrane collection.

Anyway, tell me which Coltrane albums you have and we can go from there. PM me.