Coltrane…

A Love Supreme

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John Coltrane – A Love Supreme [Full Album] (1965)
Part I – Acknowledgement 0:00
Part II – Resolution 7:42
Part III – Pursuance 15:02
Part IV – Psalm 25:44

Line-up: John Coltrane — bandleader, liner notes, vocals, soprano and tenor saxophone Jimmy Garrison — double bass Elvin Jones — drums McCoy Tyner — piano

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A Love Supreme, Pt. II – Resolution
A Love Supreme, Pt. II – Resolution · John Coltrane A Love Supreme ℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1964-01-01 Producer: Bob Thiele Producer: George Douglas, Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane, Piano: McCoy Tyner, Upright Bass: Jimmy Garrison, Drums: Elvin Jones Composer: John Coltrane

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A Love Supreme, Pt. III – Pursuance ·
A Love Supreme ℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1964-01-01 Producer, Associated Performer, Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane Producer: Bob Thiele Producer: George Douglas Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Associated Performer, Piano: McCoy Tyner, Upright Bass: Jimmy Garrison Associated Performer, Drums: Elvin Jones Composer: John Coltrane

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John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm (Live In Seattle / Visualizer)
A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm · John Coltrane A Love Supreme: The Platinum Collection ℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 2021-11-10 Producer: George Douglas Producer: Bob Thiele Producer, Associated Performer, Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Associated Performer, Piano: McCoy Tyner Associated Performer, Upright Bass: Jimmy Garrison Associated Performer, Drums: Elvin Jones Composer Lyricist: John Coltrane

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John Coltrane – “A Love Supreme” Deep Dive John Coltrane A Love Supreme was John Coltrane’s 1965 magnum opus and self-portrait, a musical declaration of divine devotion and universal connection. With music, animation, and insight, “A Love Supreme” Deep Dive offers a digital doorway into his signature recording, another way to enjoy his music and message, and appreciate Coltrane’s mastery. CREDITS
Directed by Diego Huacuja T. Animation by BASA Basa Producer: Melissa López Ley Storyboard & Artwork: Diego Huacuja T. Lead Animation and compositing: Eduardo Moya Animation: Eduardo Moya and Alberto Bala Produced by Obsidian Executive Producer: Doug Klinger Head of Production: Anna Heinrich Post Production Coordinator: Maddie Ogden Director’s Reps: Doug Klinger & Undine Markus at Reprobates Writer: Ashley Kahn Narrator: Greg Tate Executive Producers: Ken Druker, Oliver Schrage Commissioner/Producer: Steven J Gottlieb Special Thanks: Ravi Coltrane, Michael Frisch

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A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement · Branford Marsalis Quartet
Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam ℗ 2015 Marsalis Music, LLC. Under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Released on: 2015-04-13 Composer: John Coltrane Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi Assistant Engineer: Danielle Crisafulli Producer: Sherry McAdams Producer: Pierre Lamoureux Executive Producer: Branford Marsalis Executive Producer: Ann Marie Wilkins

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How John Coltrane Made “A Love Supreme” (Chasing Trane doc.)

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A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement · John Coltrane
A Love Supreme ℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1964-01-01 Producer: John Coltrane Producer: Bob Thiele Producer: George Douglas, Piano: McCoy Tyner, Upright Bass: Jimmy Garrison, Drums: Elvin Jones Composer Lyricist: John Coltrane

       A Love Supreme is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. He recorded it in one session on December 9, 1964, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, leading a quartet featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones.
       A Love Supreme was released by Impulse! Records in January 1965. It ranks among Coltrane’s best-selling albums and is widely considered as his masterpiece.

Composition https://youtu.be/0YVOd1hK0_w
Elvin Jones in a black suit performing behind a drum kit Elvin Jones (in 1976)

       A Love Supreme is a through-composed suite in four parts: “Acknowledgement” (which includes the oral chant that gives the album its name), “Resolution”, “Pursuance”, and “Psalm”. Coltrane plays tenor saxophone on all parts. One critic has written that the album was intended to represent a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician’s talent comes from a higher power. Coltrane’s home in Dix Hills, Long Island, may have inspired the album. Another influence may have been Ahmadiyya Islam.
       The album begins with the bang of a gong (tam-tam) and cymbal washes on the first track, “Acknowledgement”. Jimmy Garrison enters on double bass with the four-note motif that lays the foundation of the movement. Coltrane begins a solo. He plays variations on the motif until he repeats the four notes thirty-six times. The motif then becomes the vocal chant “a love supreme”, sung by Coltrane accompanying himself through overdubs nineteen times. According to Rolling Stone, this movement’s four-note theme is “the humble foundation of the suite”.
       In the fourth and final movement, “Psalm”, Coltrane performs what he calls a “musical narration”. Lewis Porter calls it a “wordless recitation”. The devotional is included in the liner notes. Coltrane “plays” the words of the poem on saxophone but doesn’t speak them. Some scholars have suggested that this performance is an homage to the sermons of African-American preachers. The poem (and, in his own way, Coltrane’s solo) ends with the cry, “Elation. Elegance. Exaltation. All from God. Thank you God. Amen.”
       A Love Supreme was categorized by Rockdelux as modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, hard bop, and post-bop.

Other performances

An alternative version of “Acknowledgement” was recorded the next day on December 10 with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and a second bassist, Art Davis. This version omitted Coltrane chanting “a love supreme”; he preferred the quartet version with the chant, placing that on the issued album. There are two known live recordings of the “Love Supreme” suite. For years the only known live recording of the “Love Supreme” suite was of a performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes in Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 26, 1965. On October 29, 2002, the album was reissued as a remastered deluxe edition by Impulse! Records with this live performance and the alternate takes on a bonus disc.[12] A further iteration with more studio breakdowns and overdubs was issued as a three-disc complete masters edition released by Impulse! on November 20, 2015.[13] The other known live recording of the suite was recorded October 2, 1965, at The Penthouse in Seattle. The set was recorded by saxophonist Joe Brazil.