{"id":4066,"date":"2015-12-01T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2015-12-14T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:58:48","slug":"john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"John Coltrane <br>A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/coltrane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4067\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/coltrane.jpg\" alt=\"John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/coltrane.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/coltrane-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>This year sees the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane\u2019s undisputed masterpiece. <i>A Love Supreme<\/i> is one of the most profound records ever released, in any genre. It is one of only two records (the other being <i>Kind of Blue<\/i>) that alone justify the existence of jazz. While Miles Davis\u2019 most known masterpiece exemplifies the late-night cool of the spectrum, <i>A Love Supreme<\/i> is all red-hot feeling and far reaching ambition. What you hear is a man pouring his heart out though a saxophone in front of a quartet of unrivaled kinesthetic response. What you\u2019re really listening to, though, is the sound of John Coltrane playing to see God. As Ashley Kahn put it in his 2002 book about the album\u2019s creation, the record possesses \u201cthe urgency of free jazz, the agitation of bebop, the familiar feel of the blues, and the orgasmic release of gospel.\u201d It is simultaneously one of the most listenable jazz records and one of the most ethereal, one of the most challenging and one of the most popular. Has a difficult record ever become so ubiquitous?<\/p>\n<p>So what about this super deluxe release (out on Impulse\/Verve Records)? There\u2019s a new set of liner notes from the aforementioned Ashley Kahn, and photos of Coltrane\u2019s hand-written notes and charts, as well as other ephemera. (Of course, if you\u2019re interested in this set, you probably already own Kahn\u2019s book, so none of this will be new to you.) In 2002, Impulse released a \u201cDeluxe Edition,\u201d featuring several unreleased alternative takes, and the only known live performance of the suite. That live set is here, as are all surviving alternative takes. It\u2019s not much, really. The main joy here is in the newly added sextet takes. At one time, Coltrane considered recording the album with a group that added bassist Art Davis and saxophonist Archie Shepp (an avant garde titan in his own right) to the quartet. What\u2019s most interesting is listening to the rhythm section auditioning new ideas. Drummer Elvin Jones is trying to get just the right touch of Latin rhythms. Eventually, he\u2019d abandon this approach all together. The twin basses of Jimmy Garrison and Art Davis play the eponymous melody in a round, working hard to get the timing right. That would be discarded as well and Coltrane would turn the secondary bass melody into a mantra, pushing the track and the album into new territory.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years on, <i>A Love Supreme<\/i> holds onto its power. From its sublime opening to its ecstatic heights, the music remains palpable. Later on in his short career, Coltrane would leave most listeners behind, urging his horn to speak in new tongues and recording moments two or three steps too outre to become well-loved. Here, though, right on the edge, Coltrane and his classic quartet found the perfect grace between melody and religion, and the sound is sweet, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year sees the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane\u2019s undisputed masterpiece. <i>A Love Supreme<\/i> is one of the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1498,1497,1444,1499],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-perfect","tag-impulse","tag-john-coltrane","tag-past-perfect","tag-verve-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Coltrane A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Coltrane A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year sees the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane\u2019s undisputed masterpiece. 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