A Love Supreme

Product Details

Artist : John Coltrane
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0602498010921
Label : Universal Japan
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2003-08-26
UPC : 602498010921

ASIN : B0000A118M

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement
2. Love Supreme, Pt. 2: Resolution
3. Love Supreme, Pt. 3: Pursuance/Pt. 4: Psalm

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Customer Reviews

Musically sublime, stereo seperation maddening! (2007-11-08)

Ok first of all, musically, this album is incredible and you can't go wrong. So why 3 stars? Simply because there's this manner in many conversions to CD of old recordings these days to SEPERATE THE INTRUMENTS IN DIFFERENT CHANNELS. I find this REALLY awful in the fact that, for the whole album, the saxophone comes out MY LEFT EAR. The drums, MY RIGHT. The only instrument which is actually well balanced is the piano. This is down right UNBEARABLE for half an hour! I don't understand what these guys were thinking!Anyways, I got the problem fixed by hardwiring in an adapter to convert the audio to mono on my stereo. It gets especially annoying with earphones.They should have definitely included a MONO mix onto the CD. I've heard other old recordings that were separated as such and they all included a mono track.

Unhelpful, but true (2004-08-31)

This album may serve as an acid test - if you don't like it, you don't like jazz, and never will. The flawless interplay of the four voices in this work builds upon all that came before and anticipates all that came after. Those who don't like it - and these are few an far between - are usually aggressively drowsy conservatives who listen to Coltrane wishing listfully that his genius had not arrived on the scene to disturb the sanguine haze that was American music in the late 50's. A Love Supreme created a new musical idiom in which the depth of human sentiment could be commiunicated. A towering accomplishment.

Heavenly (2004-06-26)

I'm a big fan of Coltrane, and though I at least like all of his material, several albums stand out to me as really being special. This is definitely one of them.

I enjoy Coltrane's fast playing, but have always felt that he played better when he dropped the tempo down a bit. Now, there is a lot of playing on this album that I wouldn't necessarily call slow, but it's more relaxed and "tender" than some of his other work. I feel that this is the best of his earlier work. John really hit it out of the park with this one. Every music fan should, if not own, then at least listen to this all the way through once in their life. And, if you're a jazz fan, then you'll definitely need to own this. It is a monumental achievement and is a piece of history.

A Supreme Racket (2004-06-23)

Acknowledgement? Resolution? Pursuance? Psalm? Why didn't he just make it all one song and call it "Crazy" instead? Thats what it is. It's an hour of Coltrane going just absolutely bonkers on tenor sax. Of course that's what Coltrane does anyway, but he's just in outer space on this record. He mangles and twists the hell out of his horn in modal and chromatic spasms and sometimes will just wail on one or two notes or non-notes like like he's screaming into the the thing. Meanwhile, the piano player just puches and plunks and slams and rolls all over the place, while the drummer whangs around and smashes and farts and trips over everything then goes crazy in long billowing solos. Ever so often some clunking and deranged spectre of a melody comes stomping in like a zombie and crashes around a bit, but it always goes back to the same jumbled and dissonant freak-out that makes up most of the recording. Most of the time it sounds like there is no real rythym at all, much less structure, which is cool, I suppose, if it's done right--and it is. I give this record a completely arbitrary four stars since I just like the way it sounds and I don't know how to possibly rate it! This is way out there if you dig that kind of thing. It's free. One would almost think Coltrane pioneered this style if he didn't know better.

My Love Supreme (2004-06-12)

For something like John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" to move the human being to such heightening cannot be overstated in any realm of adulation, regardless of praise's nature tendency to overvalue. It was less than two years ago that, by chance, this disc found it's way into a CD player that I had been borrowing. As a shallow jazzist, at best, I was one day perusing through the limited Jazz section of an independent CD/bookstore in Whistler, BC. I had listened to much Coltrane by then, but only selectively. The limits of my Trane knowledge where painfully obvious by my utter ignorance of his actual works, or albums; all that I had enjoyed to that point was, embarrassingly, downloaded material. When I saw Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" for $15, I didn't think twice about dropping the money. Finally I could hold tangible, material proof of my love for the saxophone - at the time, that's all I really thought the album could hold in value, as I had never known of it's existence, (let alone it's legacy). That night, as friends and I were on a road trip and crammed into one single hotel room, my under-the-kitchen-table mattress proved itself not in propriety, as a sleeping device, but rather as celestial; it was my Coltrane refuge. My under-table mattress was an other-worldly hideout, and with the catalyzing effects of "A Love Supreme," the most blissful, quartet sounds ever to be recorded transformed all that I felt myself to be. Since first experiencing the masterpiece that is "A Love," not once has my hard mind not been softened by the grace, and purity of those four musicians, who recorded a piece, on one innocent day, to shed light upon an often otherwise dark existence. "A Love Supreme" is of the most effusive Trane reveries, and is arguably one of the greatest works of art ever created.

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