A Love Supreme – Still Supreme

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Hi Folks, Peter Smetana here from Freedom Jazz Dance. This Saturday’s program will include a very special event: a feature on John Coltrane‘s seminal work, A Love Supreme. Recorded in 1964, the album is a four-part suite of breathtaking expressiveness and complexity that is usually considered to be one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

Branford Marsalis recorded his monumental take on Coltrane’s masterwork at The Bimhuis, Amsterdam in 2003. I will be playing tracks 1 (Acknowledgement) and 3 (Pursuance) from that session, plus a small interview from the event.

The other 2 tracks from the album, 2 (Resolution) and 4 (Psalm), I will play in a version by the John Coltrane Quartet itself, in a live performance at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1965.

Over the years many saxophonists have tried to replicate Trane’s sound and concept with varying results. You can decide whether Branford’s gets close… or is it a true expression of his own conception?

Listen in on Saturday 26th October at 2pm.