Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously.

As others have said, for easy listening get Ballads or his corroboration with Hartman and/or Ellington. But if you're really serious try a late night listening session with my personal favorite, Crescent. If you don't get it after that, you never will.

Totally loving the Kenny G stuff here!

As to Coltrane, well, so you don’t like it - move on. I love Interstellar Space but, then again I’m totally into Lustmord, Zoviet France, Paul Panhuysen, Stockhausen, Sun Ra, Whitehouse, John Zorn, Napalm Death... He totally makes sense within a spiritualist, atonal, alternate scale, meditative, Soul centered universe. Music is the mirror of consciousness - its vast, so you'll find some you like somewhere.

My favorite was when my Dad bought the Village Vanguard sessions. He was a 50’s jazz guy (Brubeck, Erroll Garner, MJQ)...lasted one minute before he gifted it to me. Ha!

Herbie Hancock (Water Mellon Man), Vincent Ingalis  (NastY) Daft Punk (4Ware) will get you started in the right direction.

As to Coltrane, well, so you don’t like it - move on.

Kind of my choice whether or not to move on or not, don't you think?

I have been passionately listening to jazz music -- primarily hard bop and fusion -- for almost fifty years.  I have enormous John Coltrane and Miles Davis catalogs.  Although there are some Miles Davis avant-garde titles that "speak another language" to me, I have never, to paraphrase Will Rogers, met a John Coltrane title that I did not like, indeed, love.  Put quite simply, the man is the greatest musician in history.  But he just might not be everyone's cup of tea.  So I will not recommend any titles to you.  I will state, however, that A Love Supreme is without a doubt Coltrane's best work.