FWIW, the regular record did fine -- it was the live tracks on the bonus disk that freaked people.
I went over my girlfriend's after buying the deluxe version and had to play it. We listened to the first disc and she dug it, so she implored me to play the second. I warned her that I didn't know what was to come and that she could have me turn it off. We listened to the whole live concert and she enjoyed it all. I even asked her at a particularly out part whether she wanted me to turn it off. That was her first experience with Coltrane or any free jazz; her typical listening was so called alternative or folk music. I was pleasantly surprised. When I'm with people who have never heard a particularly out there piece of music, I get really nervous and physically warm as it is playing--I'm waiting for a violent bad reaction. I still haven't gotten used to this, even though the worst I get is "turn this shit off." Though I did use Kristallnact to anger a few people on purpose one time. I also like punks' and metalheads' reactions to Naked City. Those are two exceptions.