A Love Supreme
Bob John Coltrane
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A Love Supreme by John Coltrane ranked # 47 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums list.
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 called
"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, "Psalm", uniquely
corresponds to the wording of a devotional poem Coltrane included in
the liner notes.
An alternative version of "Acknowledgement" was recorded the next day
on December 10. This version included tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp
and bassist Art Davis. The sole live performance of the "Love
Supreme" suite from a 1965 performance in Antibes, France, was also
remastered and released by Impulse! Records with the original album
and additional outtakes.
A Love Supreme is usually listed among the greatest jazz albums of
all time. It was ranked eighty-second in a 2005 survey held by
British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums
of all time. The elements of harmonic freedom heard on this album
indicated the changes to come in Coltrane's music.
Track Listing
Disc 1
- Part 1 - Acknowledgement
- Part 2 - Resolution
- Part 3 - Pursuance
- Part 4 - Psalm
Disc 2
- Introduction
- Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Live)
- Part 2 - Resolution (Live)
- Part 3 - Pursuance (Live)
- Part 4 - Psalm (Live)
- Part 2 - Resolution (Alternative Take)
- Part 2 - Resolution (Breakdown)
- Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Alternative Take)
- Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Alternative Take)
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