{"product_id":"pre-order-john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-live-in-seattle-lp","title":"John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle - LP { Vinyl LP }","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewly Discovered Late 1965 Live Recording of Trane's Magnum Opus A Love Supreme Produced by Engineer Kevin Reeves with Extensive Liner Notes by Music Historian Ashley Kahn!\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter nearly six decades, a private recording of a rare, nightclub performance by \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/strong\u003e of his magnum opus, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003e, is available for the first time on \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003evinyl 2LP\u003c\/strong\u003e courtesy of Impulse! Records. Recorded in late 1965 on the culminating evening of a historic week-long run at The Penthouse in Seattle,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a musical revelation of historic importance, capturing Coltrane as he began to expand his classic quartet – adding Pharoah Sanders on second saxophone and Donald Garrett on second bass – and catapulting him into the intense, spiritually focused final phase of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe significance of\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis heightened by the fact that Coltrane seldom performed his four-part suite after originally recording it in the studio in 1964. Composed and created as a public declaration of his personal spiritual beliefs and universalist sentiment, it became a best-seller and received a Grammy nod the next year. For more than six decades, it seemed the only recorded public performance of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003etook place at a French festival at Juan-Les-Pins in July 1965 and was released almost twenty years ago. The tape reels containing this performance from October 1965 sat in the private collection of Seattle saxophonist and educator Joe Brazil, heard by a few fortunate musicians and friends – and largely unknown until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme: Live In Seattle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating and rare performance of the full suite, marked by a looser and more improvisational approach, and a overriding sense of communal participation – much like a Sunday church service; the lineup featured John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders on saxophones, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Jimmy Garrison and Donald (Rafael) Garrett on basses. Carlos Ward, then a young saxophonist just getting started on the scene, sat in as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs music historian\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Ashley Kahn \u003c\/strong\u003eputs it in the liner notes, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme: Live In Seattle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \"offers the first evidence of the master of spiritual expression performing his signature work in the close confines of a jazz club...on October 2, 1965, a Saturday, in Seattle, the necessary elements were in alignment: music, players, venue, a spirit of connection, a certain political charge. Coltrane chose to perform it, and significantly, the moment was recorded.\" \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKahn's extensive liner notes tell the story \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enot only through the words of the musicians themselves, but also through a number of witnesses whose lives were changed by Coltrane's visit to Seattle in 1965 (his sole visit to the city as a leader), including Brazil, Ward, and bassist David Friesen, who states: \"I've always pursued the spiritual aspect of the music and I still do. I remember sitting with Coltrane during one break that week and...what touched me was the way he treated other people. He showed mercy and kindness to people from what I could see around me for the week that I was there.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe music on \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme: Live In Seattle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was recorded with a two-microphone set-up onstage, connected to an Ampex reel-to-reel machine, and the only copies of the tapes were well cared for, yielding a remarkably clear and distortion-free recording. \"What's remarkable is that tapes from this era often suffer over the years from heat or moisture damage, or simply being stacked horizontally,\" writes engineer \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKevin Reeves\u003c\/strong\u003e who produced this release. \"However, these tapes are in excellent condition... and the results are among the best amateur recordings of John Coltrane we've had the pleasure to work on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe story of the\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003e suite is the story of \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/strong\u003e – his musical journey, and his spiritual path. It has become one of the most celebrated and influential recordings to come out of the jazz canon, revered and studied by musicians far beyond the jazz realm. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e magazine consistently lists it among the top albums of all time. \"Of his many musical creations, Coltrane looked upon A Love Supreme in a very special light,\" Kahn notes in the liner notes to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Love Supreme: Live In Seattle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: \"He called A Love Supreme a ‘humble offering to the Divine; no other composition or recording was similarly offered nor did he append his signature to any other work. A Love Supreme was as much an individual testament as it was a public statement – a sermon of universalist belief.\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove Supreme: Live In Seattle \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003enow expands the story of both a great musician and a timeless piece of music!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusicians\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Coltrane, saxophone\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePharoah Sanders, saxophone\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarlos Ward, saxophone\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMcCoy Tyner, piano\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJimmy Garrison, bass\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDonald (Rafael) Garrett, bass \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElvin Jones, drums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeatures\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Vinyl 2LP-set from Impulse! 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