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Title: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1965, Jazz, Modal Jazz Spiritual Jazz, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 9/26
Condition: New, Black Swirls Vinyl (BC) | Members: John C (26’ - 67’) | Producer: Bob Thiele
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Coltrane battled heroin and alcohol dependence during the 1950s and was fired from Miles Davis’s group during that difficult period. After getting clean in 1957, he described experiencing a spiritual awakening and began treating music increasingly as a form of devotion rather than simply a career.

2. Private Prayer: A Love Supreme grew directly from that spiritual transformation. Coltrane included a written devotional poem in the album’s notes and described the work as an offering of gratitude, making one of jazz’s most famous records inseparable from his recovery and faith.

3. Hidden Message: On the closing movement, “Psalm,” Coltrane essentially plays the words of his written prayer on saxophone, matching musical phrases to the syllables of the poem. What sounds like a free instrumental meditation is secretly a wordless recitation.