"A Love Supreme"
The definitive edition of one of the landmark albums of the twentieth century. A spiritual jazz masterpiece.
Disc 1, the original album, is taken from a flawless 1965 master discovered in EMI's London vaults, without the compression or equalisation found on previous CD releases.
The Disc 2 showpiece is a recording of the only time the suite was performed live in its entirety, at the sixth Antibes Jazz Festival in 1965. From Coltrane's own reference tapes, there are also two alternative takes each of "Resolution" and "Acknowledgement", the latter featuring bassist Art Davis and tenor man Archie Shepp.
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
1965
2002 Deluxe Edition
2CDs / 2002 / Remastered / 320Kbps
Tracklist / CD 1:
A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement
A Love Supreme, Pt. 2: Resolution
A Love Supreme, Pt. 3: Pursuance
A Love Supreme, Pt. 4: Psalm
Tracklist / CD 2:
Introduction by André Francis
A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement [live]
A Love Supreme, Pt. 2: Resolution [live]
A Love Supreme, Pt. 3: Pursuance [live]
A Love Supreme, Pt. 4: Psalm [live]
A Love Supreme, Pt. 2: Resolution [alternate take]
A Love Supreme, Pt. 2: Resolution (Breakdown)
A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement [alternate take] *
A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement [alternate take] *
Disc 1 and Disc 2 (tracks 6 to 9) recorded December 1964 at Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Disc 2 (tracks 1 to 5) recorded July 1965 at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France
Personnel:
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
and
Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone *
Art Davis – bass *
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
1965
2002 Deluxe Edition
“One thought can produce millions of vibrations and they all go back to God.” (John Coltrane)