John Coltrane Sang With His Sax
When John Coltrane recorded “Psalm,” the forth piece on his classic A Love Supreme, he was actually reciting a poem, which has the same title as the LP, he wrote with his saxophone. Although Coltrane hinted in his liner notes—”The last part is a musical narration of the theme, ‘A Love Supreme,’ which is written in the context”—no one knew about it until Lewis Porter discovered it eighteen years later after Trane’s death. Reading Trane’s poem while listening to his solo yields an amazing experience. One can feel Trane’s spiritual expressions through his superb phrasings. I am sure all the jazz freaks already know about it, but I still want to share with those who have yet to experience Trane’s marvelous accomplishment. So download the poem, which is taken from “John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Jazz Improvisation as Composition” by Lewis Porter, and sing along with the music.
Who are you insinuating as jazz freaks ? Huyen Tran ? Me ? You ? Who else ?
Oh please, don’t flatter yourself, fellas!
John Coltrane’s Love Supreme is like a jazz standard. It stands right along with Miles Davis’ Kinda Blue masterpiece and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out.
There’s the hardcore version of Coltrane’s Love Supreme 2 Disk versions that has some live stuffs for hardcore fan. 2nd Disk is for the fainted heart.
There goes the jazz freak for ya. Coltrane blew the heck out of his horn on the live version. He made the sax squeals to the point of torturing, like a horse being whipped with an electric wire. It was really hardcore sound that is even hard for me to digest. On “Psalm,” Trane didn’t stick to the poem, but just screamed out with his sax. It was something!
Freaks…
Almost all jazz musician goes crazy once they’ve established some base. Miles Davis went funky once he started the album, Bitches Brew… and his stuffs never sound the same. Not golden like Cooking, Relaxing.. etc.. with Miles Davis or the same erra.
Coltrane is about the same. His latter stuffs are almost funky acid eccentric kinda jazz. Hard to digest to almost any jazz fan.