‘It was like Moses coming down from the mountain’: John Coltrane and the creation of A Love Supreme
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John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is a high mass in jazz, a prayer in four parts. This week marks the centenary of Coltrane's birth....
Music that would complete 100 years this month left a multiple and influential work, with records that explore different aspects of jazz
100 years after the birth of John Coltrane, the story of the saxophonist who changed jazz: from heroin addiction and collaboration with Miles Davis to "A Love Supreme", the album that turned music into a spiritual quest.
Starting from the jazz tradition, he built his own musical language, and, as soon as he found it, he broke it again. He turned the saxophone not only into an instrument for improvisation, but also into a field for exploring sound, spirituality and freedom. When he died in 1967, he had changed the direction of jazz. He was only 40 years old. Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of American saxophonist John Coltrane. He was born in H…
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