The "A Love Supreme" appreciation thread

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Man, I can't wait to meet Trane in heaven!

The first 30 seconds of Acknowledgement are the best musical equivalent to a spring sunrise I've ever heard.

Resolution is my FAVORITE!

I'm going to replay it right now!

Show some love DUers.

[ramapo]

1. A truly religious experience

A Love Supreme is always inspiring

[demnan]

2. I love this one too

Thanks for reminding me that I keep an extra copy in my desk drawer for when I have the urge to hear it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. I've listened to it at work more than any other

keeps me from killing people :)

[MuseRider]

3. I have not listened

to it in a long time, years in fact. It was once one of my favorites. I am not a big Jazz fan, I like it live but have little patience with recordings. This one was wonderful.

[Don Claybrook]

4. So strange you should mention that just now

I just put on Stellar Regions, from 1967, then decided to check out DU. And voila! Here you are with a Coltrane thread. Neat.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. No such thing as coincidences my friend!

Enjoy
:toast:

[Don Claybrook]

7. I've been on a piano player jag recently

Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and yes, TS Monk.

But I'll stop before I accidentally threadjack a tenor sax with a piano. The weight advantage would be unfair. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Coltrane rocked Tenor, Alto & Soprano - sometimes in the same song

but I appreciate your kindness. We'll talk Monk soon. Plus Tyner was on A Love Supreme, don't forget!

:toast:

[markus]

18. See below re: Monk/Coltrane to get the best of both

Get Your Groove On Here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000Y2F/ref=pd_qpt_gw_1/103-6813381-4107025

[Babel_17]

6. Listening to it is on my "Things to do" list

But I have listened to The Mahavishnu Orchestra's version featuring frontman/legend John McLaughlin. Extremely spiritual.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Agreed - If you like that check some 70's Miles Davis

Bitches Brew
Agharta
Live/Evil

John McLaughlin plays on those - AWESOME!!

9. don't forget Jack Johnson!

:)

[Zomby Woof]

11. WillPitt and I argued once

Which was the better jazz album, "A Love Supreme" or "Kind Of Blue". We won.

12. Is that because

Coltrane's on both of them? & he played one long beautiful song for 40 years?

That's how I'd put it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. I'ts a little unfair since Trane played on Kind of Blue

but we are correct, sir!

Good work

:toast:

[tigereye]

16. you have good taste

it is refreshing to see some good jazz threads!

:hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. Thanks very much!

:toast:

[markus]

15. Monk / Coltrane on Ruby, My Dear

We all win.

[BurtWorm]

14. Call me pedestrian but my favorite Coltrane album is My Favorite Things

Also like Live at Birdland and Giantsteps. I've never actually sat and listened to A Love Supreme all the way through. :spank:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. Not pedestrian at all!!!!!!!

Favorite things is a CLASSIC!

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Nah. It sucks.

"Feels So Good," now THAT's a jazz classic.

[BurtWorm]

22. You can just see the joy in Chuck's face.

Compare that with Coltrane's "intensity." Sheesh! What a sourpuss!



;)

[bif]

23. Chuck sucks!

n/t

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. Watch your mouth!

Next, you'll probably try to say that Bird could play the sax better than Kenny G. PUH-LEEAZE.

[BurtWorm]

25. Did Bird lay sax tracks down over "What a Wonderful World?"

Do they play "Ko Ko" or "Ornithology" on smooth jazz stations? I think not.

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. But they DO play "Songbird!"

Q.E.D.

[bif]

20. I'll say it once again, Trane=God

Have you ever checked out the church devoted to his music? I used to have the site bookmarked.

[bif]

21. I found it

http://www.saintjohncoltrane.org

[skip fox]

28. "A Love Supreme" itself has a hidden prayer behind it!

A musicologist, going thru the Trane archives (g. knows where) came across a prayer Trane wrote that corresponds syllable-by-syllable/note-by-note to the music. Some hired a singer to sing it, and showed how it was an exact fit.

Incredible feat of devotion (to God and music).

(I'm surprised at Burt Worm. Trane's seriousness is holy itself. I have a beautiful picture of him in my living room with a hand behind his head, thinking . . . Wow. The art of seriousness. .)

[BurtWorm]

30. It were a joke, skip!

I revere Coltrane as much as it's possible for a non-Trane, non-jazz aficionado to revere him. Seriously!

[asthmaticeog]

29. First time I heard it

I was in college hanging out with some friends from the nearby music conservatory, getting ridiculously baked, when someone put it on. My little art-school pea-brain was right well BLOWN, and I went out and bought that and the Greenwich Village live record the next day. What an amazing body of work he produced.

[Westegg]

31. I'm listening to it now. As close to heaven as I'll ever get.

[seventhson]

32. OMMMMMMM!!!!!!