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A Love Supreme (061850298X)
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| A Love Supreme is a suite about redemption, a work of pure spirit and song, that encapsulates all the struggles and aspirations of the 1960s. Following hard on the heels of the lyrical, swinging Crescent, A Love Supreme heralded Coltrane's search for spiritual and musical freedom, as expressed through polyrhythms, modalities, and purely vertical forms that seemed strange to some jazz purists, but which captivated more adventurous listeners (and rock fellow travelers such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and the Byrds), while initiating a series of volatile, unruly prayer offerings, including Kulu Su Mama, Ascension, Om, Meditations, Expression, Interstellar Space. From the urgent speech-like timbre of his tenor, to the serpentine textures and earthy groove of Elvin Jones's drumming, Coltrane's suite proceeds with escalating intensity, conveying a hard-fought wisdom and a beckoning serenity in the prayer-like drones of "Psalm," where Jones rolls and rumbles like thunder as Garrison and Tyner toll away suggestively--all the while Coltrane searches for that one climactic note worthy of the love he wants to share. --Chip Stern Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
I know that everyone insists this is the mother of all Coltrane albums. Don't get me wrong it's a fine piece of work. I just don't see the rainbows and stars shooting out of the cd player when it is on.
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Author: Guest
John Coltrane was truely ahead of his time! Vacuum tubes were still the state of the art when this album came out! Yet, the Fidelity is pretty amazing... Jimmy Garrison down-shifting on the Bass on the first cut ( "Acknowlegement" aka "Love Supreme" )with Elvin Jones and McKoy Tyner rounding things out, just Blew My Mind! If you DON'T "feel" this one, you have NO SOUL!
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Author: Guest
This disc ranks as one of the most moving recordings these ears have ever heard. The haunting chant of the chorus during the title track really allows a listener to feel as though they were there in the studio. It is amazing what Coltrane did with just instruments and skilled musicians. There wasn't any electronic amplification or sweetening here. One has to wonder just what would have been accomplished if they were allowed to utilize some of the equipment at our disposal today. "Acknowledgement" is a rolling tidal wave of emotions. Grab it and feel the love !
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Author: Guest
The greatness of John Coltrane rests, of course, in the fact that he produced great music. But furthermore his musical development represents the quintessential development of the artist as understood in the Western tradition: from the culmination technical virtuoisy (earmarked on such albums as "Blue Train", his only Blue Note session) to a deeper quest founded not on the accomplishment of technical innovation but instead on the basis of spiritual fulfillment through his art. (People that complain that Coltrane's later albums are just squawking are people that fail to recognise this.)
"A Love Supreme" (1964) rests on the tantalising tipping point between Coltrane's formative sideman phase and his iconic Impulse! releases on one hand, and his more challenging, freeform experimentations ("Interstellar Space", etc.) on the other. More pertinently for anyone wanting to get into jazz or any great music in general, it represents one of the great high points in all twentieth century art. Resting as it does on the point between "simple" technical brilliance and the deeper quest for the spiritual, it is the purest possible statement both of technical competence (with stellar support from Tyner, Garrison and Jones) and of the search for the eternally divine.
The fact that not a single second is wasted, not a single idea or progression is overplayed or overstated in Coltrane's quest goes to make this in the opinion of many -including me- as not only the highpoint in all jazz but the most perfect of all albums.
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Author: Guest
I bought this CD. I listened to this CD. And then I listened again, and again...ad nauseum. I get jazz. I love jazz. I "get" spiritual jazz. This music is a load of crap. It is boring, goes nowhere, and I fail to see why, when so much brilliantly done spiritual oriented jazz has been created, one would rather kneel at the alter of such mediocrity. That Coltrane may have advanced the modal boundaries of jazz/sax does not a great (or even good, evidently) album make. Trance-inducing offerings by Szabo, Tjader, Byrd, Hubbard, Hancock, Hutcherson, Horn and many others actually DO achieve the accolades unrightfully heaped upon this monotonous drone of a squak, so forego the lip service paid this and pursue those players for genuinely moving soul food if you, too, are able to listen to the MUSIC with your ears, instead of the hype.
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