Of course, A Love Supreme would probably still be one of the finest half dozen albums ever recorded had that moment not been conceived. Nothing else before or since has that immediacy, that devastating impact that Coltrane’s saxophone has at that precise moment in time. It occurs twenty seconds into the second track, Resolution, and it literally takes the breath away. There’s a moment – a split second – in John Coltrane’s 1965 magnum opus, A Love Supreme, that stands as the single most remarkable instant in all music history. A Love Supreme is always a spiritual experience, wherever you hear it.” – Elvin Jones, 2002. Our spirituality can express itself any way and anywhere you can get religion in a bar or jazz club as much as you can in a church. Gordon Rutherford reviews for Louder Than War. It’s a seminal document of music history. Now, having been hidden for more than fifty years, comes a live recording of this four-part suite in its entirety. A Love Supreme was John Coltrane’s magnum opus.
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