Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance and endurance of John Coltrane's 1964 classic A Love Supreme - a record that proved that jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration, and for the expression of the inexpressible. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn now tells the storyof the saxophone legend's landmark work.

A Love Supreme is a passionate and revealing portrait of the creation of the album, artfully balancing biography, cultural context and musical analysis. Written with the full cooperation of Coltrane's family, it features the voices of more than a hundred musicians, producers and witnesses, including the surviving participants of the sessions: drummer Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner, and engineer Rudy Van Gelder. With unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison and scores of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme weaves a rich historical backdrop and examines the questions and myths surrounding an album that, as saxophonist Joshua Redman says, "doesn't feel like just an overwhelming musical vision, it feels like the vision".

With a foreword by Elvin Jones.

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