- jazz, free jazz, post-bop, spiritual jazz
- 33 min
- 3 tracks
- impulse!
A Love Supreme is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was recorded in one session on December 9, 1964, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with a quartet featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones.
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Character
Grave, earnest, character-led and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- DownBeat5/5 ★
- Record Mirror3/5 ★
- All About Jazz5/5 ★
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- And It Don't StopA−
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- MusicHound Jazz5/5
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 ★
- Q5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
- Tom Hull – on the WebA+
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Tracks
- 1A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement7:48
- 2A Love Supreme, Part 2: Resolution7:25
- 3A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance / A Love Supreme, Part 4: Psalm17:51
3 tracks, 33 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- John Coltrane
- Label
- impulse!
- Released
- 1965
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
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