The fourth part, "Psalm," is a musical setting of the poem / psalm / hymn entitled "A Love Supreme" in the liner notes.
Coltrane links the music on the album to a spiritual awakening that began for him, he said, in 1957, (enabling him to give up drugs, or at least to begin to do so) and had steadily grown in intensity in the intervening seven years. It is a four-part suite about the spiritual journey. This is, of course, the "classic" John Coltrane Quartet at its generally acknowledged peak in 1964: the master himself on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and the multi-armed Shiva of jazz, Elvin Jones, on drums.Ī Love Supreme, of course, is or should be on everyone's list of great jazz albums, or of great music period. So if there is any jazz fan on the planet who hasn't yet heard this one, now's the time. The latest re-release is an attractive treatment: the original (first-rate) cover art is restored, the sound is markedly better, and John Coltrane's liner letter and poem are in a readable type size.
Although this disc is relatively new in its packaging and 20-bit format, it enjoyed a popular run previously as one of the first Impulse CD reissues.
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