Sunday, September 20, 2009

A Love Supreme, with John Coltrane at Antibes rare videos

The suite spiritual A Love Supreme is one of the most revered works - if not the cult - the discography of John Coltrane. The album, composed by Trane's legendary quartet in late 1964 and launched in 1965, is perhaps the mythological record in jazz history as regards the coupling of the soul, caring and development of a musician in his own work: it is a personal devotion to Trane to his conception of God, the Creator, and show the unique characteristics of interactivity between members of a quartet that was at least one of the greatest combos in jazz history. The musicians of the quartet are Trane himself on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, and the label by which the work was released was the legendary Impulse Records, and the mastering engineer Ruddy Van Gelder, who operated in my own studio located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. In the recording studio, Coltrane also touch parts of the suite in a live concert at the Festival of Antibes, France, on July 27, 1965: was the only live concert where the quartet played during the piece.

To the delight of those who have not lived in France in 1965, had already heard that a video with parts of A Love Supreme was recorded in Antibes (in fact, it was possible to see parts of the legendary concert videos on Youtube incomplete, although in poor resolutions), but until then, was a rare videotape that just seemed to be lost or that "one or two" collectors had the most articulate in good resolution. It is true that the concert was never released on audio discs, in which case the shares are included in the suite: just browse through the records Live In Antibes 1965 Stamp French Radio Classic Concerts, Live In Antibes 1965 stamp LeJazz (related to Charly Records) or the free deluxe edition of the Impulse! (recently reissued in sync with the book A Love Supreme: The Creation of Disk, Ashley Kahn), but the supposed video of A Love Supreme, as its original was lost in the hands of a collector or in the archives of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in Paris.
However, a User has to provide the document cut in half in two videos with just over 12 minutes and optimum resolution: it is the parties' Acknowledgment and Resolution being played by the quartet of Trane, just over the legendary concert in Antibes that were lost, there is a cut in the ground suddenly of McCoy Tyner on the "Resolutions" and the third and fourth parts, Pursuance and Psalm, are not included, but it is still a great find - able to enjoy a good video of the quartet Trane playing two parts of his most mythology is a great opportunity. In addition, to complement their collections this stage post-bop and avant-garde of John Coltrane - I am the original disks for the Impulse, the book of Ashley Kahn, plus these videos can be downloaded on Youtube - the most fanatical coltraneanos may try to acquire DVD released by Disconforme at a price of 18.95 dollars: this is a compilation of videos such as the concert itself the Antibes Jazz Festival, 27/07/65 (with two other bands - apart from parts of A Love Supreme - Naima and Blue Valse), which also has the video of the concert in Baden Baden, Germany, 04/12/61 (with the tracks My Favorite Things, Everytime We Say Goodbye, Impressions) and video of the concert in San Francisco on 07/12 / 63 (with bands Afro-Blue, Alabama, Impressions). I believe people of good sense, which has a few bucks for their hobby when they buy - at least when the pocket to buy - these and other precious jazz records, rather than appeal to the convenience of downloads on the Internet. However, we know that not everyone can afford to create collections of CD's to buy at exorbitant prices, the blog Farofa Modern offers downloads of some historical records: if you want to download A Love Supreme Audio, simply click on the tag "John Cotran "below this post and download this and other records of the master SaxTenor.
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1 Comment:

ironblue said...

Yeah, love supreme is supreme of Coltrane, isn't it. there's a chorus of a few bars, right?

I thought it a fake of Cherles Mingus's Ole, at first. But wasn't. This tune is the sample of a monk practicing asceticism, yes John's the monk.

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