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Jun 1, 1997 · 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.
Apr 2, 2023 · Gatefold with liner notes, designed by Joe Lebow using a painting by Victor Kalin, Fairfield and Freehand. The credits at the bottom are set in Akzidenz-Grotesk with News Gothic. A Love Supreme is a landmark 1965 LP from saxophonist John Coltrane, often considered his masterpiece.
Recorded on December 9, 1964 in the iconic New Jersey studio of Rudy Van Gelder, A Love Supreme is the crowning achievement of John Coltrane’s Impulse period and arguably the most representative album by his classic quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones. More than anything else, A Love Supreme ...
Sep 19, 2004 · —John Coltrane, from the original liner notes of A Love Supreme. Many of music’s greatest songs are religious in nature: “Amazing Grace,” The Velvet Underground’s “Jesus,” any of Johnny Cash’s hymnal songs and countless selections from Sufjan Stevens’ Seven Swans. But religious devotion channeled through purely instrumental ...
Oct 17, 2023 · The 12-page booklet is excellent, with liner notes by Ashley Kahn, who wrote A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002). The included Technical Specifications Manual details how these records are made and the makeup of Clarity Vinyl (part of Acoustic Sounds' acquisition of Classic Records), and answers most questions ...
Oct 24, 2023 · Looking now at Coltrane’s other note pages, there are several drafts of the album notes (known as “liner” notes). The album opened up like a folder, and Coltrane’s writings were inside. We will be talking quite a bit about these notes, so you might to have them handy to compare with the sketches below. For your convenience,
John Coltrane's Meditations (Impulse! 1966) begins with a sound utterly unique in the history of recorded music - a sound of living, of breathing, of lungs expanding and contracting. With a mere pair of tenor saxophones, Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders have created an organism that rages and calms, speaks and sings, laughs and cries, roars and ...
