December 12, 2024
The 33-minute long album consisted of four parts: “Acknowledgement”, “Resolution”, “Pursuance” and “Psalm”.
Love SupremeJohn Coltrane’s critically acclaimed album, released in 1964. On December 9th, the diamond anniversary of one of the most influential jazz albums, Impulse Records is released A Love Supreme: 60th Anniversary Edition.
Coltrane and his band members recorded the famous album in one afternoon. Coltrane’s quartet included bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones, and pianist McCoy Tyner.
In a 2012 interview NPR, Tyner is reflected recording session, Coltrane said gave them minimal verbal direction when recording the masterpiece.
“You see, one thing about that music is that it showed you that we got to a level where you could move the music. John had a very wonderful way of being flexible with the music, of stretching it, you know , we reflected something similar. He gave us the freedom to do it,” Tyner told the paper.
In addition to the reissue, The Winter Jazzfest will be hosting a special event to celebrate the album, The Improvisers. Guest musicians Ravi Coltrane, son of John and Alice Coltrane, will headline the show with his quartet, with other musicians including Angelica Sanchez, Ben Williams, James Brandon Lewis, Joel Ross, Kalia Vandever, Casa Overall, Kenny Warren, Nashit Waits, Rafiq Bhatia, Sam Newsom and Tomoki Sanders.
Supreme love still deeply influencing black culture.Director Spike Lee pays tribute to Coltrane in his 1990 film My Better Blues, originally titled: Supreme love. Lee changed name At the request of Coltrane’s widow, Alice Coltrane.
“I wanted to call it ‘Love Supreme,’ but the movie is so profanity-laced that Mrs. Coltrane didn’t like the idea of using her husband’s best song,” Lee said. Oklahoma.
Coltrane recorded more than 40 albums and collaborated with countless other musicians, including jazz legends Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.
The limited edition diamond vinyl is available for pre-order on February 7, 2025, 60 years after the original Supreme love release
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