John Coltrane

Artist:  John Coltrane
Birth Name:   John William Coltrane
Born:  September 23, 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA.
Died:  July 17, 1967 (Aged 40),  Huntington, New York, USA.
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone.

John Coltrane was an American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer.  He played in style of Bebop and Hard Bop and helped pioneer the use of the modes in Jazz and was later at the forefront of Free Jazz.  He also appeared as a sideman on many album by other musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.  His best known and best-selling albums Blue Train i 1958 and A Love Supreme in 1964.

Title:  Love Supreme  (2008)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Label:  Impulse!
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  A Love Supreme Part I - Acknowledgement (7:42)
 2.  A Love Supreme Part II - Resolution  (7:17)
 3.  A Love Supreme Part III - Pursuance  (10:42)
 4.  A Love Supreme Part IV - Psalm  (7:02)

Personnel:

John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone, Vocals
Jimmy Garrison: Double Bass
McCoy Tyner:  Piano
Elvin Jones:  Drums, Gong, Timpani

Love Supreme is a studio album by John Coltrane, originally released on January 1965 by Impulse! Records, remastered and reissued on June 10, 2008 by Impulse! Records, featuring Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones.