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Beyond a Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
Beyond a Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
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Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. In Beyond A Love Supreme, Tony Whyton explores both the musical complexities of A Love Supreme and the album's seminal importance in jazz history. Marking Coltrane's transition from the bebop and hard bop of his earlier recordings to the free jazz style perfected throughout the rest of his career,
the album also embodies the deep spirituality that characterized the final years of his life. The titles of the four part suite--Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm--along with the poem Coltrane composed for inclusion in the liner notes, which he recites instrumentally in
Psalm, reflect the religious aspect of the album, a quality that contributes to its mystique and symbolic importance within the canon of major jazz recordings. But Whyton also shows how A Love Supreme challenges many of the traditional, unreflective assumptions that permeate jazz culture--the
binary oppositions between improvisation and composition, black music and white music, live performance and studio recording. He critically examines many of the mythologizing narratives about how the album was conceived and recorded and about what it signifies in terms of the trajectory of
Coltrane's personal life. Sifting through the criticism of late Coltrane, Whyton suggests ways of listening to these recordings that go beyond the conventional ideologies of mainstream jazz practice and open the music to a wider range of responses. Filled with fresh insights into one of the most influential recordings in jazz history, Beyond A Love Supreme is an indispensable resource for jazz scholars, jazz musicians, and fans and aficionados at all levels.
Author: Tony Whyton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/18/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199733248
the album also embodies the deep spirituality that characterized the final years of his life. The titles of the four part suite--Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm--along with the poem Coltrane composed for inclusion in the liner notes, which he recites instrumentally in
Psalm, reflect the religious aspect of the album, a quality that contributes to its mystique and symbolic importance within the canon of major jazz recordings. But Whyton also shows how A Love Supreme challenges many of the traditional, unreflective assumptions that permeate jazz culture--the
binary oppositions between improvisation and composition, black music and white music, live performance and studio recording. He critically examines many of the mythologizing narratives about how the album was conceived and recorded and about what it signifies in terms of the trajectory of
Coltrane's personal life. Sifting through the criticism of late Coltrane, Whyton suggests ways of listening to these recordings that go beyond the conventional ideologies of mainstream jazz practice and open the music to a wider range of responses. Filled with fresh insights into one of the most influential recordings in jazz history, Beyond A Love Supreme is an indispensable resource for jazz scholars, jazz musicians, and fans and aficionados at all levels.
Author: Tony Whyton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/18/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199733248
About the Author
Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz and Musical Cultures at the University of Salford and the author of Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths, and the Jazz Tradition. He is the founding editor of the international journal The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism and co-editor of the Jazz Research Journal.
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