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John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Printer Friendly Version Back to Original Article Printer Friendly Version John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Recurrence Transits and the Jupiter-Neptune Opposition by Nick Dagan Best Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved September 23, 1926, 5:00 p.m., Hamlet NC On December 9, 1964, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and the members of his quartet entered a recording studio in Englewood Cliffs NJ at 8:00 p.m. For a four and a half hour session.
The music he taped that night - his classic, spiritually inspired suite A Love Supreme - was conceived and performed as a personal testimony to God. “All Made From One” As a composer and instrumentalist, Coltrane used music not only to express himself emotionally, but also to communicate spiritual and ideological concepts through non-verbal means. A consummate innovator, he was always discovering new sources of inspiration. For A Love Supreme, he adapted musical passages from lyrical structures (1) – specifically, the suite’s title itself as well as the text of a poem Coltrane included in the album’s packaging. This approach to composition enabled him to transcend music’s abstract quality and speak directly to his listeners. The suite’s first section, Acknowledgement, explores a three-note, four-beat melody (based on the suite’s title: a-love-su-preme) that, at the piece’s climax, Coltrane randomly repeats in all twelve Western musical keys.
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According to jazz scholar Lewis Porter, this was done to convey a particular spiritual message: “he’s telling us God is everywhere – in every register, in every key.” (2) Also, during Psalm, the suite’s final section, Coltrane’s improvisation was based on the rhythmic pattern of the poem included on the album jacket. Again, always purposeful, he explained in the liner notes, “Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions – time all related.all made from one.”(3) Spiritual Awakening In A Love Supreme’s liner notes, Coltrane refers back to an epiphany he had seven years earlier as the suite’s source of inspiration: “During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music.” (4) In early May 1957, Coltrane retreated for a two-week stay at his mother’s house in Philadelphia, to tackle his substance abuse problems - specifically alcohol and heroin addiction. He had just been fired for a second time from Miles Davis’ quintet, with whom he had been playing for a year and a half, due to his habits having compromised his playing ability. Davis, himself a recovered heroin addict, had been willing to overlook his musicians’ habits – to a degree. But as he described Coltrane at the time he was fired, “Here was Trane (Coltrane) up on the bandstand sometimes nodding out.he’d be playing in clothes that looked like he had slept in them for days, all wrinkled up and dirty.showing up late, sometimes not at all.” (5) Coltrane’s subsequent musical growth after emerging clean and sober from his two-week spell in Philadelphia was nothing short of miraculous.
Over the next few months, he played in composer Thelonious Monk’s band, and also recorded his first classic solo album, Blue Train. By the end of 1957, Miles Davis was so impressed with Coltrane’s development, he invited him to re-join his group. Coltrane remained in Davis’ band for another two years, where they recorded some of the most memorable music in jazz history. Once Coltrane went out on his solo career in 1960, it wasn’t long before his own group eclipsed Davis’ as one of the most popular and influential bands around. Winterthur Grinding Handbook Of North. A Love Supreme On June 29, 1964, five months before recording A Love Supreme, Coltrane was saddenned by news of the mysterious accidental death of his good friend, multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Dolphy, who had been in Coltrane’s band during 1961 and had since played with him intermittently, though never diagnosed with diabetes, died of insulin shock in a Berlin hotel room.