JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE Solographer: Jan Evensmo assisted by James Accardi Last update: Feb. Album ‘A Love Supreme’ celebrated this victory and the profound religious. Dexter Culbertson (tp), John Coltrane (as), Norman Poulshock (p), Willie Stader (b), Joe Theimer (dm), Benny Thomas (vo). The traumatic experience proved transformative, as the brush with death ultimately led Coltrane to an encounter with God. Guinness writes that Coltrane’s finest work came after this divine appointment, including his famous piece “A Love Supreme,” in which he responded musically to his experience of the power of God’s love.
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Album history[edit]
Ashley Kahn explored the making of this classic album in his book A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album(2002). Kahn combines biography, cultural context, album contributors, and musical analysis to tell the story of the recording, start to finish. Besides interviews with musicians, friends and family members, Kahn's range includes never-before-seen photographs and production details on the cover photo by Bob Thiele and liner note illustration by Victor Kalin.````reba-kaye — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Reba-kaye (talk) 17:12, 8 August 2013 (UTC) Reba-kaye] (talk • contribs) 15:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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I want to get this to GA or FA for the 50th anniversary. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)Sources:
- Critical reception (contemporary reviews: Downbeat, Jazz, Hot, Jazz Podium and Swingjournal
- Rolling Stone (11/14/02, p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 - '...John Coltrane's A LOVE SUPREME is one of the most compelling, spiritual testimonies in the history of jazz...'
- Q (10/95, p.136) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - '...a four-part affirmation of religious faith, and simply one of the most influential records of the '60s. It's challenging and intense, but an essential and ultimately very beautiful album...'
- The Wire (12/02, pp.51-3) - '...A LOVE SUPREME is marvellously self-contained....The dignity of A LOVE SUPREME has not been compromised and it has never sounded better on CD...'
- Down Beat (4/8/65) - 5 Stars - Excellent - '...Coltrane's artistry is evident in his never permitting tension to overcome its counterpoise, release....[A LOVE SUPREME] is a significant album, because Coltrane has brought together the promising but underdeveloped aspects of his previous work; has shorn, compressed, extended and tamed them; and has emerged a greater artist for it....'
- Down Beat (11/95, p.73) - 5 Stars - Excellent - 'With the power of prayer fueling its invention, half the universe's choice for desert-island disc still sounds novel....Trane's rolling discourse managed to be simultaneously menacing and sublime...'
- Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.106) - '...A LOVE SUPREME remains a remarkable, challenging listen...It's the definitive version of a definitive moment...'
- NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #36 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
- Vibe (12/99, p.160) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
- Q (4/99, p.129) - Included in Q's list of 'The Best Jazz Albums of All Time.'
- Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.114) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's list of 2002's '10 Best Reissues'
- Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.110) - Ranked #47 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' - '...Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him...'
- Compilation on other Coltrane albums (The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings, The Impulse! Albums: Volume Two, The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Selections From - The Classic Quartet - Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings, Priceless Jazz Collection Vol. 5, The Very Best Of John Coltrane, The Impulse Story, Ken Burns Jazz: John Coltrane and Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music)
- First Meditations (for quartet), Ascension, and Meditations
- Crescent http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dzfqxqtgldte~T1
- Live releases (Live at Antibes, A Love Supreme: Live)
- Cover versions (http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=329, Artists of the Belgian Kris Dfort Fabrizio Ksul out in 1995 creating variations on an album called Variations on A Love Supreme, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Galaxy, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfqxqthldde, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0jfixqtkld0e, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfoxqtgldfe, http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=1014, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfyxqrhldse, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_n10_v6/ai_19692555/, Michael S. Harper's Dear John, Dear Coltrane)
- 'Angel of Harlem'
Releases:
More to come. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:04, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
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- Adaptations
Coltrane's original handwritten sheet music for A Love Supreme includes a note reading 'All paths lead to God'
Doug and Jean Carn recorded 'Acknowledgement' with female vocals for their 1972 album Infant Eyes. John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana recorded a guitar version of 'Acknowledgement'. which they titled 'A Love Supreme' on their 1973 collaboration Love Devotion Surrender. At the time, both were devotees of guru Sri Chinmoy.
Will Downing released an R&B cover version of the main theme, with the co-operation of John's widow Alice Coltrane, which reached number fourteen in the UK singles chart in 1988. Gumball recorded an alternative rock version of A Love Supreme as a bonus track on the 1994 Japanese release of Revolution On Ice. The suite has also been recorded several times by Branford Marsalis. It forms a track on the bonus CD for the 1994 compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, four tracks on the 2002 Branford Marsalis Quartet album titled Footsteps of Our Fathers, and on the DVD 'A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam.' Branford's brother Wynton recorded the suite in 2003 with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.[1]
Sections of the suite have been performed by the David Murray Octet on Octet Plays Trane ('Acknowledgement')[2], the Ballistic Brothers on Rude System ('Acknowledgement' and 'Resolution')[3], Marc Johnson on Bass Desires ('Resolution')[4], and the Bob Mintzer Big Band on Big Band Trane ('Acknowledegment')[5]. The Turtle Island String Quartet released their album A Love Supreme in 2007, and the album features a cover version of the suite, along with other covers of various Coltrane charts.
A 1995 album titled Variations on A Love Supreme was composed by Fabrizio Cassol and Kris Defoort.
In 2007 José James recorded 'Equinox' and 'Resolution' as a double A-Side limited-edition 10' for Brownswood Records. James, previously a rapper, added vocals to the tracks.
Jazz singer Kurt Elling recorded 'Resolution' for his album Man in the Air. In this recording, Elling set lyrics to the music in his style of vocalese.
References
- ^A Love Supreme - Wynton Marsalis official web site
- ^allmusic ((( Octet Plays Trane > Overview )))
- ^allmusic ((( Rude System > Overview )))
- ^https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000188234 allmusic
- ^allmusic ((( Big Band Trane > Overview )))
-- Jytdog (talk) 18:21, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- I agree that it' not all noteworthy, while other things are missing. Reference-wise, for starters, I'll point out that Chris Parker's entry on Marc Johnson in Ian Carr, Fairweather, and Priestley's Rough Guide to Jazz writes: 'A highlight is a ringingly positive version of Coltrane's 'Resolution', from A Love Supreme'. A highlight on Bass Desires, that is, an album which the same text marks as 'a highly influential album, still sounding fresh thanks to Frisell and Scofield's pleasingly contrasting styles'. Will dig for some more, particularly on Murray's version. ---Sluzzelintalk 19:30, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- Ashley Kahn's book on the album mentions 'David Murray's artfully arranged octet version' of 'Acknowledgement' as one 'deserving special mention', and that chapter lists quite a few more interpretations. Don't have a copy of the book, currently. ---Sluzzelintalk 20:03, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
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Although this disc is relatively new in its packaging and 20-bit format, it enjoyed a popular run previously as one of the first Impulse CD reissues. The latest re-release is an attractive treatment: the original (first-rate) cover art is restored, the sound is markedly better, and John Coltrane's liner letter and poem are in a readable type size. So if there is any jazz fan on the planet who hasn't yet heard this one, now's the time. This is, of course, the 'classic' John Coltrane Quartet at its generally acknowledged peak in 1964: the master himself on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and the multi-armed Shiva of jazz, Elvin Jones, on drums.
A Love Supreme, of course, is or should be on everyone's list of great jazz albums, or of great music period. It is a four-part suite about the spiritual journey. Coltrane links the music on the album to a spiritual awakening that began for him, he said, in 1957, (enabling him to give up drugs, or at least to begin to do so) and had steadily grown in intensity in the intervening seven years. The fourth part, 'Psalm,' is a musical setting of the poem / psalm / hymn entitled 'A Love Supreme' in the liner notes. The only quibble I have with the 20-bit release is that 'Psalm' was still not made a separate track on the CD; as on the first CD release, it remains tied to Part 3, 'Pursuance.' There is no reason for this except carelessness, since another great Coltrane suite, Meditations, now allows the listener to cue each of its five parts, instead of the vinyl-hangover two divisions of the original release.
What makes A Love Supreme great? Unlike many other suites, A Love Supreme has a real unity of theme and mood. The intention is noble, the tone passionate, the playing flawless. There are hundreds of fine jazz albums, many of which are aided by Mr. Coltrane's playing; A Love Supreme is a fine jazz album, and more. It reaches a depth of emotional power rarely sounded in jazz. Coltrane's playing is powerful, as it is elsewhere, and lyrical, as it is elsewhere, but nowhere else does the man reach such a fullness of both these qualities at the same time. In contrast to some of his later work, Coltrane on A Love Supreme is powerful without being violent and lyrical without meandering. Jones is stunningly powerful here, and yet never overshadows the leader. Tyner and Garrison take solo turns that match Coltrane's work in tone and embellish the whole structure.
Miles Davis began playing modal tunes in the late 1950s; Coltrane, of course, was there, and together they made the first great extended statement of modal jazz, Kind of Blue. A Love Supreme stands right with that work. If you can own only two jazz albums, these two are the ones to go for; if you have room for only one Coltrane album, this one should be it.
A Love Supreme, of course, is or should be on everyone's list of great jazz albums, or of great music period. It is a four-part suite about the spiritual journey. Coltrane links the music on the album to a spiritual awakening that began for him, he said, in 1957, (enabling him to give up drugs, or at least to begin to do so) and had steadily grown in intensity in the intervening seven years. The fourth part, 'Psalm,' is a musical setting of the poem / psalm / hymn entitled 'A Love Supreme' in the liner notes. The only quibble I have with the 20-bit release is that 'Psalm' was still not made a separate track on the CD; as on the first CD release, it remains tied to Part 3, 'Pursuance.' There is no reason for this except carelessness, since another great Coltrane suite, Meditations, now allows the listener to cue each of its five parts, instead of the vinyl-hangover two divisions of the original release.
What makes A Love Supreme great? Unlike many other suites, A Love Supreme has a real unity of theme and mood. The intention is noble, the tone passionate, the playing flawless. There are hundreds of fine jazz albums, many of which are aided by Mr. Coltrane's playing; A Love Supreme is a fine jazz album, and more. It reaches a depth of emotional power rarely sounded in jazz. Coltrane's playing is powerful, as it is elsewhere, and lyrical, as it is elsewhere, but nowhere else does the man reach such a fullness of both these qualities at the same time. In contrast to some of his later work, Coltrane on A Love Supreme is powerful without being violent and lyrical without meandering. Jones is stunningly powerful here, and yet never overshadows the leader. Tyner and Garrison take solo turns that match Coltrane's work in tone and embellish the whole structure.
Miles Davis began playing modal tunes in the late 1950s; Coltrane, of course, was there, and together they made the first great extended statement of modal jazz, Kind of Blue. A Love Supreme stands right with that work. If you can own only two jazz albums, these two are the ones to go for; if you have room for only one Coltrane album, this one should be it.
Track Listing: 1. Pt. 1 - Acknowledgement; 2. Pt. 2 - Resolution; 3. Pt. 3 - Pursuance / Pt. 4 - Psalm.
Personnel: John Coltrane: saxophone; McCoy Tyner: piano; Jimmy Garrison: bass; Elvin Jones: drums.
Title: A Love Supreme | Year Released: 1997 | Record Label: Impulse!
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