![]() ![]() It features a foreword written by Elvin Jones. Ashley Kahn: A Love Supreme: The Story Of John Coltranes Signature Album Due to its improvisational nature, jazz rarely repeats itself precisely from performance to performance, even. Music fans and historians will devour the book, which is rife with anecdotes and commentary from Bono, Phil Lesh, Alice Coltrane (Coltrane's widow) black-and-white photographs and previously unpublished interviews with Coltrane himself. A professor of music history and criticism at NYU who lectures at other institutions as well, his books include the A Love Supreme: The Story of John. Recorded with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones over the course of one evening in 1964, the record ""caught Coltrane at a pivotal point in his creative trajectory: the crystallizing of his four years with this renowned quartet, moments before his turn toward the final, most debated phase of his career."" In A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, Ashley Kahn (Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece) covers how the album was made, where it was made, why it is so important and how it reached such a broad audience (it is one of the top-selling jazz albums of all time). In February and May of 1965, the quartet returned to Van Gelders studio to record The John Coltrane Quartet Plays, a set of recognizable, audience-pleasing tunes. ![]() ![]() Along with Miles Davis's seminal album, Kind of Blue, saxophonist John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is undoubtedly one of the world's most influential jazz recordings. A Love Supreme the original recordingwas made at Rudy Van Gelders New Jersey studio in December 1964 and released the following month. ![]()
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