A love supreme

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Another record that bewildered Coltrane's audience... Indeed, many did not understand, in this year 1964, the turn taken by the saxophonist's career, who, far from exploring the path of a personal free jazz, allows himself to address four long compositions... to God.
A vast prayer where he took his usual quartet (Tyner, Garrison, Jones), in an exploration of a fascinating asceticism. Coltrane flattens the usual musical structures to follow only patterns sometimes reduced to minimal chords and emaciated melodies. He fills the rest with a playing devoid of unnecessary technique, very moving and reaching unsuspected heights. A mystical record, in every sense of the term, and an absolute masterpiece.