but for now, let me speak briefly about how i encountered trane’s music and perhaps get into what it represents to me. i met trane through his music, more specifically his album a love supreme (1965) which i had discovered in the library during my studies at technikon natal. this is perhaps the first jazz record i had ever listened to right to the end without feeling lost, it felt as though trane (through this record) understood my people, knew my village, our chants and dances. in many ways, the experience of listening to this record took me back to the various ceremonies and rituals i had attended in my upbringing, there was some sort of inexplicable familiarity around it. it was a transcendental experience overlapping the concept of time and space. the record gave me lots of hope, in this new journey of becoming an improvisor at least through an instrument this time around.