Well, yes, Love Supreme, and Kind of Blue are classics of modern jazz.  It's amazing how many people, when asked about jazz, or if they like it, always include Miles and Coltrane.  Fortunately these great masters are very accessible in terms of recorded material, and that is wonderful, but there's more..so much more.

Now...if you are interested in a live Jazz recording, that I think is unsurpassed, with all the Miles and Coltrane idioms of the mid-sixties, I'd highly recommend Lee Morgan's "Live at the Lighthouse".  Superb recording fidelity-wise..you feel like you are there.  Lee was a great trumpet player who died "prematurely".  An enraged lady friend shot him after a gig one night.  The tenor sax player on the date is Bennie Maupin (who is still alive and well, and I think living somewhere in Southern California).  The recording was done at a now defunct club called the Lighthouse; I think it was located in Malibu.  It really does not have the "west coast" jazz sound, though, and is a very swinging hard bop outing.  Lots of extended modal improvisation, and both Morgan and Maupin really scorch on this one.  Some of the song titles .."Peyote" and "Speedball"; hmmm.  An added super-plus, is Lee's banter in between songs and with the introduction.  It's a 3 CD box set...GET IT!

Gene