With Understanding Comes Appreciation
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what a journey!
It's the sound of a man's spiritual journey condensed into a half-hour of free jazz majesty, and it makes me feel a near-religious presence every time I hear it. And this is coming from a guy whose relationship with spiritual matters mean very little if anything. Everything about it is perfect. There are few albums that transcend genres, but A Love Supreme is without a single doubt one of those. I don't know if it is because John Coltrane actually poured into it his mind and soul and the tapes were fortunate enough to actually grasp them in physical format... or probably it was the fact that Coltrane, Tyner, Garrison and Jones did the impossible and for 33 minutes they were able to read each other's minds, blend together into one single being and became each other... or is it that God (Great Architect of the Universe, Jehova, Allah or whoever/whatever), acknowledging that this music was actually made, conceived and played for him — without intermediaries, interests of any kind, religions or bullshit in-between — magically converted the saxophone, piano, bass and drums into something divine so everyone hearing the sound blasting out of them would actually feel the essence of the universe in the form of music...
...or is it that it is just a fucking amazing album...