A Love Supreme by Ashley Kahn5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This book, like Kahn’s exploration of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, (an album, incidentally, on which Coltrane played tenor sax), is too often what one might charitably call esoteric. Now he was ready to return to God, bearing a gift of his own, in gratitude.Īshley Kahn, who has a singular knack for detailing the way jazz masterpieces are created, has now turned his attentions to that gift –and although jazz aficionados should certainly be grateful, I can’t think of any reason why the casual listener should be. This is the first time I have everything, everything ready.'” Earlier in the year, in the form of John Coltrane, Jr., he had received a gift from God. ![]() He said, ‘This is the first time that I have received the music for all that I want to record, in a suite. He walked down and there was that joy, that peace in his face, tranquility. ![]() When he did, “t was like Moses coming down from the mountain,” according to his wife, Alice, “it was so beautiful. He went upstairs with nothing but pen, paper, and saxophone, and didn’t come down until five days later. It happened in 1964, seven years after it all turned around for John Coltrane. One of the great redemptive post-heroin jazz albums in the history of redemptive post-heroin jazz albums, A Love Supreme was recorded the same way it was composed, and was composed the same way it was conceived: quickly, in the moment’s inspiration. ![]()
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