![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There had to have been more to the story, and more music. Coltrane had solos longer than that at the Half Note. Coltrane attracted not only fans and admirers-Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Steve Reich, Gil Scott-Heron ("…until our hero rides in, rides in, on his saxophone…"), Bono, and Carlos Santana, who paid tribute in 1973's Love Devotion Surrender with John McLaughlin-but something akin to followers (and not the ephemeral Twitter kind).įor such an epic piece-a four-part suite that is, in Coltrane's words on the original record jacket, "an attempt to say THANK YOU GOD…", the all-caps his-it's a mere 32 minutes and change. It became one of the best-selling jazz recordings in history, and in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it 47th in its list of Top 500 albums. John Coltrane released his most-celebrated work A Love Supreme in 1965. ![]()
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