After that, a tape surfaced of the only live concert of A Love Supreme, done at the Antibes Jazz Festival in the summer of 1965. Something important was about to happen.Īs it turns out, long lost master tapes were found in family relatives’ homes, one recorded a day after the original album, featuring bassist Art Davis and tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp. When he finally walked down the stairs of their quiet country home in Dix Hills, New York, it was “like Moses coming down the mountain”. I remember Alice Coltrane talking about this work when I interviewed her years ago, telling me that Coltrane spent a week up in his room, meditating and composing, not even coming out to eat food had to be brought up to him. It’s been years since Ashley and I met to talk about his book The House that Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. So it was a pleasure to sit down and speak with him again about the new 3-cd set. The new set is also available on vinyl, a nice offering. Now, 50 years after it was released, some master recordings – long lost and forgotten – have been unearthed and released in a 3-cd set, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters. The set is co-produced by writer and critic Ashley Kahn, who wrote the book on the iconic album, A Love Supreme / The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album. John Coltrane’s 1965 album A Love Supreme is not only a musical masterpiece, but also a sublime expression of the human spirit.
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