John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Speakers Corner 180g LP, Mastered by Kevin Gray] 24-bit/96kHz

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It is almost impossible to imagine a world without A Love Supreme having been made, and it is equally impossible to imagine any jazz collection without it. - Jack LV Isles/AMG

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A Love Supreme is a jazz album recorded by John Coltrane's quartet on December 9, 1964 at the Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The album is a four-part suite, broken up into tracks: "Acknowledgement" (which contains the famous mantra that gave the suite its name), "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm". It is intended to be a spiritual album, broadly representative of a personal struggle for purity. The final track corresponds to the wording of a devotional poem Coltrane included in the liner notes.

A Love Supreme is usually listed amongst the greatest jazz albums of all time. In a 2005 survey conducted by British television's Channel 4, to find the 100 best albums of all time, it was voted in at eighty-second. It was also ranked 47th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and is listed as one of the top five greatest albums of all time on Rate Your Music's. The elements of harmonic freedom heard on this album indicated the changes to come in Coltrane's music.




Track listing

All tracks composed by John Coltrane.

Side A:

Part 1: "Acknowledgement" – 7:47
Part 2: "Resolution" – 7:22

Side B:

Part 3: "Pursuance/Part 4: "Psalm" - 17:53

Personnel

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleader
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Bob Thiele – production