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 | Title : Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition)
Author : Coltrane, John
Release Date : 20021029
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $29.98
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Editorial Reviews :
A Love Supreme is a suite about redemption, a work of pure spirit and song, that encapsulates all the struggles and aspirations of the 1960s. Following hard on the heels of the lyrical, swinging Crescent, A Love Supreme heralded Coltrane's search for spiritual and musical freedom, as expressed through polyrhythms, modalities, and purely vertical forms that seemed strange to some jazz purists, but which captivated more adventurous listeners (and rock fellow travelers such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and the Byrds), while initiating a series of volatile, unruly prayer offerings, including Kulu Su Mama, Ascension, Om, Meditations, Expression, Interstellar Space. From the urgent speech-like timbre of his tenor, to the serpentine textures and earthy groove of Elvin Jones's drumming, Coltrane's suite proceeds with escalating intensity, conveying a hard-fought wisdom and a beckoning serenity in the prayer-like drones of 'Psalm,' where Jones rolls and rumbles like thunder as Garrison and Tyner toll away suggestively--all the while Coltrane searches for that one climactic note worthy of the love he wants to share.
Buyer Reviews :
This is rightly recognised as one of Coltrane's best recordings (or at least that has been true of the LP core which so many of us have known for so long). Don't allow yourself to be put off, or for that matter unduly enthused, by the knowledge that Coltrane saw himself as involved in religious homage when producing this miraculous music. It IS miraculous, even to those who, like myself, are not or hardly religious. The intensity and concentration of the music is a blessing by any standard, and to the extent that Coltrane by his own admission felt himself inspired by a supreme spiritual power, and called on to express his reverence, one can hardly deny that his music here benefited enormously. I don't like the record more than some of his others, like the one simply called 'Coltrane', or 'Africa Brass', but it is certainly ONE of his very best: coherent, disciplined, hugely articulate, deep and suggestive. The other musicians are all completely up to their task - and more - too. A wonderful record to own.
(by Joost Daalder)
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