Coltrane John
A Love Supreme - Acoustic Sounds Series
Label: Impulse
Genre: Jazz / Avant Garde
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The first section, entitled 'Acknowledgement', has a forceful bass line which runs throughout the whole work. The powerful sound increases in intensity, whereby the bass motif undergoes constant modulation, with John Coltrane's meditative singing creating immense tension. In 'Resolution' Coltrane's powerful, quasi hymnlike expression comes to the fore, with McCoy Tyner achieving equal intensity in his solo.
'Pursuance', with its density, quick-as-lightning runs and block chords, gives us a taste of John Coltrane's later 'free' phase.
'Psalm' is filled with the famous, almost static melodies rather like a fervent prayer which are so typical for John Coltrane.
'A Love Supreme' has been a faithful companion and teacher of generations of saxophonists and its message goes way beyond music and is still valid today.
Recorded in 1964.
John Coltrane, tenor saxophone
Jimmy Garrison, bass
Elvin Jones, drums
McCoy Tyner, piano
Mastered from the original analogue tapes. Packaged in Stoughton gatefold tip-on jacket.