![]() ![]() These nine previously unreleased tracks add up to thirty-five minutes of music-sort of. The new release, “The Complete Masters,” also includes additional, previously unreleased material that, though intermittently excellent, isn’t essential. By making that performance readily available to the general listener, Impulse! sparked a major advance in the appreciation, the understanding-and the love-of “A Love Supreme.” The merits of that recording shed particular light on the importance-and, strangely, the limits-of the original studio recording of “A Love Supreme.” It’s a revelation because of one particular set, one that many Coltrane fans have heard before: the live performance by the quartet from Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 26, 1965, of the entire suite of “A Love Supreme.” This set was also included the “deluxe” two-disk edition of “A Love Supreme,” issued by Impulse! Records, in 2002. ![]() ![]() If you only own the original studio release of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (recorded on December 9, 1964, and issued in February, 1965), then the new three-disk release “A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters” of the classic album by Coltrane’s classic quartet will be a revelatory experience. John Coltrane performing at the Drome Lounge, in Detroit, in June, 1966. ![]()
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