Ebook {Epub PDF} A Love Supreme: The Making of John Coltranes Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn

Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach to music that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn has written an even more illuminating celebration of saxophone legend John Coltrane's spiritual opus and masterwork.  · for a book about 'a love supreme,' this spends very little time actually talking about the music found within the album itself, and i suppose i thought that was what this book was about. for ish pages, ashley kahn crafts a narrative that gives a truncated biography of john coltrane, and his work leading up to the recording of 'a love supreme,' as well as his incredibly polarizing and experimental /5. Here Kahn does for A Love Supreme what he did in Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece () for Coltrane's former employer's biggest hit, and because A Love Supreme was pivotal in Coltrane's career--he became the fountainhead of free jazz almost immediately after recording it--Kahn winds up writing the great saxophonist's biography again, more lucidly, if in less detail, than /5(K).

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Here Kahn does for A Love Supreme what he did in Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece () for Coltrane's former employer's biggest hit, and because A Love Supreme was pivotal in Coltrane's career--he became the fountainhead of free jazz almost immediately after recording it--Kahn winds up writing the great saxophonist's biography again, more lucidly, if in less detail, than anyone has before. He injects fine sidereal pieces on Impulse!. Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's classic A Love Supreme -a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach to music that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn has written an even more illuminating celebration of saxophone legend John Coltrane's spiritual opus and masterwork.