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A Love Supreme

Album · 1965 · John Coltrane · Impulse!; produced by Bob Thiele (quartet: Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones)

He got clean, felt something wake up, and wrote a 33-minute thank-you note with no words in it. Gratitude can be a whole album. 🎷

Who it's for

Coltrane's liner notes frame the album as a humble offering of thanks for a spiritual awakening he dated to 1957, the year he quit heroin, so the record gives listeners in or near recovery a model of turning survival into purpose rather than shame.

Restless→Awe / Wonder

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What it is

A Love Supreme is a jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded in a single session in December 1964 with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, produced by Bob Thiele and released by Impulse! in January 1965. It is a four-part suite (Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm) in which the opening part turns a four-note motif into an overdubbed vocal chant of the title.

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Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and other major streaming services; also on CD/vinyl. Deluxe editions add a live 1965 Antibes performance.

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