A Love Supreme & Meditations by A Love Supreme Electric, released on Cuneiform Records in 2020.

Some records tell you what’s what. That’s not a bad thing: there’s a place in music for reportage, for commentary, for what’s going on. But A Love Supreme Electric, the collaborative project between Vinny Golia, John Hanrahan, Henry Kaiser, Wayne Peet, Mike Watt, and John Coltrane’s immortal spirit, starts from a different place.
“What if?” it asks.

In fact, ALSE asks “What if?” over and over again, joyously interrogating the twin templates of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Meditations from a kaleidoscopic array of angles. All five performers weigh in with their solo perspective, but the magic is that the listener is invited to contribute, too. ...

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-supreme-electric-a-love-supreme-and-meditations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giu5b2NzhaM&list=RDgiu5b2NzhaM&start_radio=1

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God-bothering

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3CMgiUPuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bci4dGbmBFk

Man muss schon sagen, John Coltrane war ein ziemlicher Styler, sowohl selbstverständlich auf dem Saxophon als auch mit seinen Klamotten. Ich höre jedenfalls heute Abend zum dritten Mal sein unfassbar gutes "A Love Supreme" auf Platte. Und bin immer wieder geflasht.

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Sixty Years of A Love Supreme

On 9th December 1964 – exactly 60 years ago to the day – John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b) and Elvin Jones (d) got together to record at Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in New Jersey. In a single session they created what is probably Coltrane’s masterpiece, A Love Supreme, an album that proved immediately popular and influential when it was released in 1965.

A Love Supreme represents a sort of musical culmination of everything this quartet had achieved and it’s not surprising that they abruptly changed direction soon after making this record. They had said everything they could say in this format. Coltrane’s next great album, Meditations, recorded in 1965, features the same musicians (with the addition of Pharaoh Sanders on tenor sax and a second drummer, Rashied Ali), but it’s much freer in style.

A Love Supreme consists of four sections: Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm. As you might imagine from the titles, it’s a deeply spiritual piece. Acknowledgement is based on an 8-bar theme underpinned by a four-note phrase played on the bass that fits the phrase “a love supreme”. Coltrane impovises rather meditatively on this theme, then the group chants “a love supreme” in unison while Elvin Jones elaborates the rhythm in complex double-time. The second movement, Resolution, is based on a different 8-bar theme and Coltrane’s playing and interplay with Jones is much more agitated but it’s in Pursuance that he pulls out all the stops. Harmonically, Pursuance is a blues but it’s taken at a fast tempo and Coltrane plays with the harsh, strangulated tone he had developed by this time. After all this frantic activity he imbues the final section, Psalm, with a radiant solemnity, as he pours out an incredibly beautiful solo, with Elvin Jones providing a perfectly judged accompaniment, the rise and fall of his drum rolls showing wonderful control.

Anyway, these are just words. It’s much better just to listen to the music, as I have done twice already this evening. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3CMgiUPuU

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This morning's listening.

#beck - Morning Phase
#fugees - The Score
#easystarallstars - Radiodread
#caribou - Suddenly
#johncoltrane - #alovesupreme

Apparently this is a thing I do now.

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