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A Love Supreme: Remastered [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

John Coltrane | Format: Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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John Coltrane (1926-67) was the most relentlessly exploratory musician in jazz history. He was always searching, seeking to take his music further in what he quite consciously viewed as a spiritual quest. In terms of public recognition, this quest began relatively late. The tenor saxophonist, a native of North Carolina who later moved to Philadelphia, was 28 when he joined the Miles Davis ... Read more in Amazon's John Coltrane Store

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  • Audio CD (8 Jun 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Universal
  • ASIN: B0000A118M
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 137,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. A Love Supreme Part I: Acknowledgement 7:42Album Only
Listen  2. A Love Supreme Part II - Resolution 7:17Album Only
Listen  3. A Love Supreme, Part III: Pursuance10:42Album Only
Listen  4. A Love Supreme, Part IV-Psalm 7:02Album Only

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The only version to get. 6 Sep 2003
By baldheadtim
Format:Audio CD
To those of you who perhaps bought this album on Vinyl in the 60s as I did, and have been so disappointed with all the CD re-issues to date, then finally your patience has been rewarded.

All previous CD reissues have had a nasty tinny quality to Elvin Jones's cymbal sound, and Coltrane's tenor sounded hard and ugly. Even the Impulse 24 bit remaster was horrible.

This re-issue is gorgeous -- even if you own this recording, unless it is on anything other than pristine vinyl :-), it is well worth a re-purchase.

The bonus is that the live French recording (the only time Love Supreme was played as a suite live) is both sufficiently different and exciting to sometimes make the choice of which version to listen to a problem.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Follow that 21 Oct 2007
By John Tree
Format:Audio CD
OK, it's 1964, and Bebop has come a long way. We are six years after Coltrane recorded Kind of Blue with Miles, and it would be another five years before Miles records the next milestone: In A Silent Way. Tunes seem to be getting longer and longer...and with A Love Supreme John Coltrane finally produces a recording that gives himself free rein to really explore the furthest recesses from seed ideas. This is a very spiritual album, there seem to be no constraints.

Most of the four tunes begin with a basic theme, which is quickly jettisoned as Coltrane's creative juices start to flow.
There are some astounding sections on this CD, the musicians almost seem to be jostling for position at the mic, and yet they meld organically together. There are calm, meditative sections where we feel the gentle ebb and flow of notes between the players. There are parts where Coltrane's sax just 'goes' and blasts out a barrage of notes that are like a musical tsunami. We have emotive swells from McCoy Tyner's angular piano stabs elevating and pushing. Jimmy Garrison's nagging bass manages to add both urgency and solidity. There is some excellent effervescent and elastic drumming from the great Elvin Jones who manages the trick of creating and maintaining endless dynamic openings.

I have lost count how many times I have played this album over the years, but it still sounds fresh and new. The recording is Coltrane at the height of his powers, and the whole album boils over with invention. It may sound like a cliche, but it really does feel like a kind of spiritual roller coaster... immersive, visceral and exhilarating. Wow.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Questing, cresting, waves of spiritual sound 25 July 2006
By Sebastian Palmer TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Coltrane's high water mark of spiritual searching, where `sheets of sound' and esoteric musicality merge with the spirit of the 60's beat/hippy influenced quest for inner knowledge, both free and yet beautifully structured.

As a drummer I've always enjoyed this album as much for the interaction of the sublime rhythm section as for Coltrane's own kaleidoscopic psychedelic explosiveness. I also love the endearingly off-key mumbling of the vocal refrain "A Love Supreme". Elvin Jones is just incredible, as are Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner (I saw Tyner in the early 90's in Cambridge, and he was still ploughing the furrow first broken by this band way back in the mid-sixties, and even then - as now - it sounded fresh, vigourous, vital, transformative, exciting).

Jazz isn't dead, it's there in the ether, waiting for you to connect with it (funny, how so much jazz went hand in hand with 'connections' of other kinds too). Coltrane and co really connect on this monumental recording, making this essential music, 'nuff said!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars "A WORK OF ART"
"A Love Supreme" is a superb record. I see it more as a work of art or a piece of art rather than just music. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Warren
3.0 out of 5 stars a little disappointed!
Cam just as i expected but in my opinion it is a little over rated but obviously this is to my tastes
Published 1 month ago by MR J E EVANS
4.0 out of 5 stars I've eaten better!
This album blew my mind, man. Not as good as the chicken supreme I had for my tea last night but man it sounded good. Mmmmmmmm I love chicken and I love supreme!
Published 2 months ago by AndySoprano
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Music. Poor Sound
This is a must have item for jazz fans - though in my view not Coltranes greatest work, though probably his best known. Read more
Published 4 months ago by johval
5.0 out of 5 stars My first Coltrane
Mr Kim Tait, a saxophonist, muso/artist and friend argued that Coltrane was the greates saxophonist to draw breath. Read more
Published 10 months ago by "Belgo Geordie"
4.0 out of 5 stars Jazzy
I am not a jazz eficionado <<<spellcheck but I know what I like and I like this.
the music themes are interesting and the improvisation is really quirky and can be... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Cubby Kovu
1.0 out of 5 stars Be more careful
Sadly the cd is in a format that i cannot play. It wasn't obvious that this was a SACD ( what ever that is )
Published 14 months ago by JG
5.0 out of 5 stars A Sublime Masterpiece
John Coltrane's 1964-recorded masterpiece A Love Supreme is, for me, one of the most beautiful, and simple, musical performances ever recorded. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Keith M
5.0 out of 5 stars Trane`s prayer
Even at his most `out there` John Coltrane sounded as if he had something beyond the confines of genre to impart, bursting as he was with, so colleague Miles Davis pointedly... Read more
Published 16 months ago by GlynLuke
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome album for anyone with a soul
I bought this album as an Amazon recommends from an earlier purchase of Kind of Blue. It is quite awesome in terms of simplicity and depth of sound. It is soulful. Read more
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