A Love Supreme is a four-part suite about John Coltrane's spiritual journey, which began for him in 1957, enabled him to overcome drug addiction and grew stronger over the intervening seven years. Coltrane saw the suite as his gift to God. The rest of the world has come to appreciate it as a classic, not just Coltrane's most famous work, but one of the most important and influential jazz records
… ever made. With this release, the entire story of A Love Supreme is available for the first time on a double CD. The first disc of this deluxe release contains the suite as it was released in 1965 but now from a newly discovered master tape in London instead of the second generation tape previously used. The second disc features the only live concert the Coltrane Quartet has ever given, recorded at the Antibes Jazz Festival in the summer of 1965, which is now getting its first official release. But, more importantly, it also includes the highly anticipated sextet version of the first volume Acknowledgment, which has never been released before. A salient detail is that A Love Supreme was mastered by the original recording manager Rudy Van Gelder. That makes this double CD the definitive release of this unparalleled masterpiece. (RM) A salient detail is that A Love Supreme was mastered by the original recording manager Rudy Van Gelder. That makes this double CD the definitive release of this unparalleled masterpiece. (RM) A salient detail is that A Love Supreme was mastered by the original recording manager Rudy Van Gelder. That makes this double CD the definitive release of this unparalleled masterpiece. (RM)more