A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

A Love Supreme! A Love Supreme! Kevin Currie-Knight There are VERY few jazz albums which have achieved the status and attention of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. And listening to it decades after it was first released (I first heard it in 1996), we forget how revolutionary that album was: a jazz suite, religious in nature, less centered on chord changes than meditating over modal accompaniment.In A Love Supreme, journalist Ashley Kahn attempts to tell the story of the making of A Love Supreme. Of course, with it, we. An Excellent, Informative Read Ajo Way You KNOW the music. Now learn about the events in the life of John Coltrane that lead up to the pinnacle, the mountaintop of his career.First of all, let me explain that I have a substantial library on jazz music - mostly about Miles and Trane. I found this book to be very insightful, regardless of what anyone else has written in their review. I don't want to be disrespectful of those reviews but I fail to see how some arrived at a mediocre or low opinion of this bo. J. P. Rogers said Probably the best.. Easily the best biography of Coltrane. Although it's primary focus is the seminal album, it gives an excellent review of Coltrane's entire life leading up to the classic. It gives abundant and perhaps unparalleled quotes from Coltrane and the members of his Classic Quartet. Highly recommended.

Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family members; unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison; and scores of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme balances biography, cultural context, and musical analysis in a passionate and revealing portrait.. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime

It features a foreword written by Elvin Jones. Music fans and historians will devour the book, which is rife with anecdotes and commentary from Bono, Phil Lesh, Alice Coltrane (Coltrane's widow); black-and-white photographs; and previously unpublished interviews with Coltrane himself. . Recorded with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones over the course of one evening in 1964, the record "caught Coltrane at a pivotal point in his creative trajectory: the crystallizing of his four years with this renowned quartet, moments before his turn toward the final, most debated phase of his career." In A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, Ashley Kahn (Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece) covers how the album was made, where it was made, why it is so important and how it reached such a broad audience (it is one of the top-selling jazz albums of all time). From Publishers Weekly Along with M