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A Love Supreme

John Coltrane · 1965 · Impulse!

Tracks

A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement

A Love Supreme · 1965

Personnel

John Coltrane

leader · Saxophone

McCoy Tyner

played Piano on this album

McCoy's wide-voiced left hand gave Coltrane a wall to push against — not counterpoint, but colliding harmony.

Elvin Jones

played Drums on this album

Elvin's drumming became the eye of the storm — creating the hurricane alongside Coltrane while remaining at its center.

Jimmy Garrison

played Double Bass on this album

Garrison's arco and fierce pizzicato became inseparable from Coltrane's sound.

John Coltrane

leader · Liner Notes

John Coltrane

leader · Tenor Saxophone

The four years of the Coltrane Classic Quartet (1961–65) represent one of the most concentrated periods of creation in jazz history. ElvinElvin Jonesエルヴィン・ジョーンズ's polyrhythm and McCoyMcCoy Tynerマッコイ・タイナー's wide-voicing left hand gave Coltrane something to push against.

John Coltrane McCoy Tyner Jimmy Garrison Elvin Jones

July 26, 1965, Antibes, France. The only known live performance of 'A Love SupremeA Love SupremeJohn Coltrane · 1965' in its entirety. Officially archived by INA (the French national audiovisual institute). The classic quartet at its most ferocious, near the end of the era.

Elvin Jones Jimmy Garrison John Coltrane McCoy Tyner

August 1965, Comblain-la-Tour, Belgium. RTBF's color broadcast — a rare and valuable color film of the classic quartet, captured just days after the Antibes 'A Love SupremeA Love SupremeJohn Coltrane · 1965' performance, with the band still riding that intensity.

Elvin Jones Jimmy Garrison John Coltrane McCoy Tyner

McCoy TynerMcCoy Tynerマッコイ・タイナー anchored John ColtraneJohn Coltraneジョン・コルトレーン's classic quartet from 1960 to 1965. His left-hand quartal voicings and right-hand pentatonic flurries provided the harmonic foundation of A Love SupremeA Love SupremeJohn Coltrane · 1965.

McCoy Tyner John Coltrane

Jimmy GarrisonJimmy Garrisonジミー・ギャリソン joined John ColtraneJohn Coltraneジョン・コルトレーン's quartet in late 1961. His pedal-point bass on the opening of A Love SupremeA Love SupremeJohn Coltrane · 1965, anchoring the four-note 'a love supreme' motif, became his most celebrated contribution.