John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60
“Though I have all faith so to move mountains and have not love, I am nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:2).
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“It is no accident,” says Early, that during the time of Coltrane’s greatest period as an artist, from 1960 to 1967, Martin Luther King was talking about redemptive love and sacrifice as a solution to the American race problem, many American artists and intellectuals, particularly after 1965 were going “Oriental” and turning to the East for inspira
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As a result, over the course of his career, Coltrane explored a number of different ways of approaching music and absorbed a vast variety of influences. Saul notes that “Coltrane moved from hard bop and modal jazz, to the suite form of ‘A Love Supreme’ and then the freer combinations that dropped the musical pulse entirely,”
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