A love supreme live in Seattle

"Jazz album of the month" - "A month beforehand, Coltrane had enlisted saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (a 24-year-old developing the master's own techniques to make the sax mimic chants, protestations and cries), a second bassist, Donald Rafael Garrett, and sought a more prominent role for percussion - changes that would soon disrupt his long relationship with Tyner and Jones. On this long-shelved amateur tape-recording made at Seattle's Penthouse club on 2 October 1965, an improvised opening bass duet immediately emphasises a looser Coltrane-ensemble conception before A Love Supreme's famous four-note hook begins to unfold in constantly changing keys ... This is a unique document of a landmark 20th-century band at a pivotal moment".

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"A previously unknown recording from a small Seattle club in 1965 documents one of the saxophonist's signature works - spiritual, searching, unstoppable - as never heard before ... Compared to the two complete versions of "A Love Supreme" we know, this one is stretched out further and played with more intensity ... "A Love Supreme" is a hypnotic and enveloping piece, and the added length allows the listener to slip deeper into the music. Once you've heard the first few notes of Coltrane's opening fanfare, it's hard to resist the pull of the rest, no matter how long the record is".

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"Jazz album of the month" - "A month beforehand, Coltrane had enlisted saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (a 24-year-old developing the master's own techniques to make the sax mimic chants, protestations and cries), a second bassist, Donald Rafael Garrett, and sought a more prominent role for percussion - changes that would soon disrupt his long relationship with Tyner and Jones. On this long-shelved amateur tape-recording made at Seattle's Penthouse club on 2 October 1965, an improvised opening bass duet immediately emphasises a looser Coltrane-ensemble conception before A Love Supreme's famous four-note hook begins to unfold in constantly changing keys ... This is a unique document of a landmark 20th-century band at a pivotal moment".

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"A previously unknown recording from a small Seattle club in 1965 documents one of the saxophonist's signature works - spiritual, searching, unstoppable - as never heard before ... Compared to the two complete versions of "A Love Supreme" we know, this one is stretched out further and played with more intensity ... "A Love Supreme" is a hypnotic and enveloping piece, and the added length allows the listener to slip deeper into the music. Once you've heard the first few notes of Coltrane's opening fanfare, it's hard to resist the pull of the rest, no matter how long the record is".

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"Archival jazz gold, with a spacious and uplifting take on Coltrane's masterpiece".