Who's Afraid of A Love Supreme?｜Vinyl Monday
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Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about classic albums in my collection that I love. My thoughts on the John Coltrane Quartet’s magnum opus, A Love Supreme (released 1965.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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intro - 0:00
A Love Supreme - 2:00
track listing/release - 11:27
my thoughts - 16:11
thanks for watching! - 37:56
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what’s your love supreme? comment below ❤️
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Musically ? Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen is my all-time favorite album.
My wife. I'm not terribly original, but love will do just fine for me.
This doesn't have to do with the question just wanted to say this is one of your best episodes
I have to say I have Love Devotion Surrender and Life Divine is an amazing piece of music. Two guitar gods going at it!
I want to be honest, Abby. I clicked on this expecting my "Abby is in waaaaay over her head now" moment. But no, you stood your ground, faced your fear, and served it up: Coltrane as you see it, articulated beautifully. Respect. applause applause applause
Eleven years ago, my mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Between her diagnosis in May, 2013 and her passing in October, 2014, John Coltrane's music provided me with spiritual comfort and direction. To this day, whenever I feel lost, A Love Supreme and everything John recorded afterwards returns me to solid ground.
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please keep doing jazz reviews, as a (mostly) non-musician I've struggled with interpreting jazz and your creative/poetic descriptions are evocative and inspiring :)
I just wanna say that, as a black viewer, it’s refreshing to see you cover more black artist on your channel. Hope theres more to come in the near future.
music is music, no need to bring ethnicity into it
i think what you ask is reasonable and balance is always a good thing. I can see that a lot of people have liked what you said.
just to say that vinyl monday's origins began, to a large degree, with the generous gift of a large ready formed collection of a few hundred records. she got into a lot of the albums already discussed on this channel by working through that collection. other gifts from subscribers arrive intermittently. she consistently talks about black music. there is so much love for vinyl monday it ensures that there is a lot of clamour for this and that to be covered.
i'm not speaking for abigail devoe i'm just saying that the premise of the channel, from my viewing experience, is the overview of a personal collection ( classic rock psych folk ) a vinyl collection : and not necessarily to provide a comprehensive history of music.
great thing is she will listen to our shout outs, aquire accordingly and there's always next week!
The 1960s and 70s were a rich time for just about all popular music genres. R&B, Soul, Funk and Jazz artists were doing tremendous things during that period. I think it's inevitable that AD will be reviewing some of that material.
@@dundee12 as a minority, I disagree with this statement.
@@alanclayton9277 Thanks for this reply, but I’m already aware of this information. I’m just saying that, as a black person, I would like to see her cover more black artist/music on her channel, as there are a lot of black music and artist from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s that are either criminally underrated or completely ignored. It would be nice to see somebody (not just Abby) to at least shed light on these artist and bring more attention to them. Plus it feels nice to feel represented. You have to understand, as a minority, representation is very important to me.
Great job, Ms. Devoe! Seriously, for someone who doesn't know the technical side of music, from someone who also worships music without the technical knowledge, you described this album beautifully. Thank you!
And with this, Abigail has officially levelled up.
Just picked up the vinyl version of the Complete Masters version of this. Perfect timing.
Seriously though - you are "must watch" content every week, no matter which album. Your research, presentation, and enthusiasm are top-tier. You should be truly proud of what you've given us today. Thank you.
And mark my words: someday, you're going to do Talk Talk's Laughing Stock (and maybe even do Spirit of Eden along with it; trust me, you'll make an amazing episode of this duo). I'm calling it now.
I couldn’t have said it better! AD has the next level research, presentation & enthusiasm, hands down!
Oh Yes, Talk Talk, top choice. My preference is more their 3 middle albums. But a top suggestion.
Hell yeah, another Talk Talk fan
I think she once said that Wealth was the one of the most beautiful songs she's ever heard, it's on one of her monthly Spotify playlists.
Fun fact: it took years and years before it was publicly known that the poem in the gatefold were the words for Psalm. Somehow nobody put the 2 and 2 together. It must have been mind-blowing to those who figured it out by themselves. I think it only became common knowledge in the 1990s with the advent of CD liner notes. And if you read the words and listen to the music it‘s easy to follow, as every phrase he plays matches every word perfectly.
Much respect: you took on a challenging and difficult subject and didn't get your ass kicked. Or be boring.
You did it. I'm impressed. I've been listening to this since it came out. To see it reverberating across four generations like this almost makes the state of the rest of the world bearable. (You're going to make me finally break down and listen to the MC5.)
In the late nineties I became obsessed with the sound of the traditional Japanese flute, the shakuhachi. I studied, I researched, I practiced everyday and I built 3 shakuhachi from scratch. In 2003 a friend of mine gave me a photo, from a magazine, that featured John playing shakuhachi on an airplane, taken the year he died. I have the photo right over there.
Don't be scared. It's only music. As you say in the video, just go with how it makes you feel.
Incidentally that group is one of the greatest and transcendent in the history of music. Personal opinion.
My sister and I used to sit at the piano and put our fingers as far an apart as possible and call it dad’s music. He was a a jazzer, and quite enjoying our mockery. Made me a better listener in retrospect
Hearing you talk about music as spirituality, I'm reminded of stone-cold atheist Frank Zappa: "Music is the only religion that delivers the goods."
Wasn't sure what a jazz-centric VM episode would be like, but I loved it! I can definitely hear the influence it had on acts like Can (RIP Damo Suzuki) and Mark Hollis, even when Talk Talk were still a synth-pop group, Hollis always envisioned them eventually becoming something way more expansive and expressive, and he ultimately succeeded in doing so, and it's thanks to works like A Love Supreme. Even I was put off from this album at first, and I'm a sucker for experimental stuff, but within a handful of listens I was hooked, it's so sad that we didn't get much from John (Or should I say, "Saint John" lol), afterwards, but what he left us is more than enough.
RIP to Damo, Mark, and John, hoping that they're all making wild stuff in music heaven...
Kind of strange, but my 6th grade math teacher had a poster of John Coltrane in his room. Being 12 years old and just getting into music I didn’t know anything about Jazz and definitely nothing about John, but the image of him fascinated me. It had this dark and mysterious vibe that really drew you into the picture. I think I might’ve paid more attention to the poster than to whatever I was learning in math at the time lol.
As it‘s lovingly called among us jazz fans, John Coltrane‘s „I Love the Supremes“ ❤
the makeup and look and hair is perfect this time
An incredible album from John Coltrane with a fantastic personnel. What an awesome review for Vinyl Monday! Kudos to you Abigail🙏. Always look forward to and enjoy watching each episode- all artists and reviews of their albums are very informative, truly inspirational and highly entertaining. Much gratitude😊🙌🎵🎼🎵🌏
Inspired analysis Abbey - so well thought out and researched! I'm a pretty seasoned jazz listener and you brought out so many interesting qualities and beautiful facts about this piece of music. Loved your Naima vocalisation! 😀 Well done Abbey!
This is probably my favorite jazz album. I wasn’t expecting you to do a jazz album but I’m very glad you’re doing it.
Absolutely love this video. The psychedelic rock content is always amazing but it's so much fun to see you dive into jazz and talk about it so passionately.
Yet again you’re the person with the most interesting record content I’ve found in the wild
your channel works! deeply impressive background work and compelling delivery. another old music buff subscribed
Your writing and descriptions continue to get better and better.
I can't offer much for this week, but did come across this quote:
Duane Allman: "I listen to Miles Davis (early Miles) and John Coltrane and Robert Johnson, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters; see, you get a goal in mind, a note that you want to hit with your band and then you gotta go out on the road and your spiritual battery runs down. You get home and you listen to that stuff and say “Ah, there it is, I have it before me, I know what to do” and you go out and do it.”
Wow. Singing Giant Steps. Iam impressed. Not easy to do. You go girl!!😮
i wish it was burned into my brain from some actually intelligent reason, but no. editing every song into giant steps was a big meme 2 years ago and i was obsessed.
I look so forward to Mondays!! Thank you so much Abigail!!!
"a love supreme....a love supreme... a love supreme..." It took me until I was 60yrs old to enjoy and not be afraid of it, you'll get there.
i hope i’m always a little afraid of it. i’d be heartbroken if i were desensitized to something as earnest as a love supreme
Another great post. As a fellow rock fan, so glad to see you connect the dots with the MC5 and their jazz influences. Also agree 100% that your analysis is about context and can't avoid politics, religion etc. Thanks for keeping it real. RIP Brother Wayne.
I remember the first time I heard this album… I was hypnotized until the very end, and to this day whenever I put this album on it feels like the first time. This album is something unique!
A Love Supreme (and a lot of 0:33 0:34 free jazz) is actually very accessible to a rock audience that grew up with groups like Cream and other late 60s rock. Jimi was very influenced by jazz, and there was an explosion of jazz players in rock bands-especially drummers-in groups like Procol Harum, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane,as well as more overtly jazz oriented bands of the period like Hendrix, Soft Machine, Manfred Mann and many more. (I forgot the Mothers of Invention, Spirit, Miles Davis, Gary Burton, Brian Auger and even Charles Lloyd and others who were straddling both worlds of music at
Coltrane was a huge influence on Jerry Garcia. They both tend to play in paragraphs. This being the case, Bob Weir looked to McCoy Tyner to develop his techniques. There are times on this album that I hear Bobby and Jerry play.
An especially enjoyable edition of Vinyl Monday. Because of its spontaneous nature I usually prefer to witness jazz live at a gig rather than listening to recordings. However, when it comes to the albums of the great and the good who are no longer with us, it was Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue and John Coltrane's Giant Steps that first got me interested and excited by jazz and without them I could never have gone on to appreciate more 'challenging' albums like Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
Coltrane was a genius that would not be denied! and all of his bands were amazing! I have a more rock-centric than jazz collection, but I have Trane, Miles, Duke, Tyner, Sun Ra, Hancock, and an assortment of the UK, Chicago, and NYC avant garde scenes. A Love Supreme is such a consuming listen that I do it rarely. but it's so memorable it stays with you for a long time, like Miles' Kind of Blue. speaking of Miles Davis-my favorite jazz record of the 60s is Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968). my favorite track is the closer, "Mademoiselle Mabry" named for Betty Mabry, his muse the future Betty Davis who put out some classic funk in the mid 70s. the band plays Gil Evans' arrangements for a jazz reworking of "The Wind Cries Mary." it's such a thing of beauty.
Very courageous episode, Abby! I think you did it justice. This was my starter album for Coltrane; I ended up getting most of his catalog. I think you're right that it pretty much started psychedelia, and inspried a lot of introspection. Enjoyed this one, thanks.
Wow we are truly kindred spirits when it comes to Music & the love of it for music's sake. It was an honor to send those albums to you. I think of got more for you & thanks for doing Coltrane for us.
You two were clearly made for each other and should get married and have a thousand babies.
Alice's solo records are exceptional works. I did manage to see her live and she was extraordinary.
Modal jazz is, in simplest terms, different ordering of the scales beyond major and minor scales. The modes are considered to have origins in Greece and they can simply be described as treating a scale as originating at different points from the key.
Miles Davis is usually credited as introducing these, but they are based on concepts, in jazz at least, by George Russell and in classical music, extensively used by Olivier Messian much earlier. You can think of things like an Indian scale or middle eastern scales as examples of different modal scales, but there are many, many modes. I don't know if that helps.
This was my first Coltrane album i got into jazz back in 2022 after discovering miles davis and i bought a love supreme not to ling after it blew me away great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up
Elvin (Fucking) Jones. Absolutely right! Great video. I could not have said and done this any better myself.
My "love supreme" is probably Charles Mingus' live version of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" on his "Mingus At Antibes" album. Ted Curson spits fire on his trumpet solo. Booker Ervin is incredible in his tenor sax solo. Then, Eric Dolphy brings the house down on my favorite solo of all time. And I've seen footage of them performing this. How are they just standing there motionless in front of a microphone? It sounds like the rapture is upon us and Dolphy's just singing from the pulpit. (No, I'm not really religious, either, but I was raised Catholic.)
Either that or Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Saxophone Concerto" on "Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle."
That said, Coltrane's output from "A Love Supreme" thru "Meditations" is probably the greatest output by one artist over a year's time...including Dylan's '65-'66, the Beatles' 1967 (or...any other year of theirs), or Mingus's 1959.
I saw Elvin and McCoy Tyner live around 1972-1973 and interviewed Archie Shepp, (almost played with him once!), Sun Ra and met several other of these musicians.
You did a great job on this! Future recommendations might be Ornette Coleman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor and Alice Coltrane records if you have not done so already!
Good job, Abby! I like how you take the music out of its context. Art is born in a context, but lives in many others. I think the most valuable thing in your stories is the feeling and understanding of the old music by a young and smart listener. Just tell us why to listen to this music today, and it will be a gift. 😉
In a Bela Lugosi voice : " Don't be afraid ! " Thanks for the great video !
I have a devout catholic friend, who uses A love Supreme, as prayer devotional. He listens to side one for his morning reading and meditation. Side two for devotions and reading before bed to end his day.
that’s beautiful
@@abigaildevoe every day side one is sunrise and side two is sun down. I forget. Is this routine called vespers?? I forget. Is this catholic meditation routine called Vespers??
Vinyl Monday? John Coltrane? That's just a couple of my favourite things right there. Also, love the final comment about poor journalism! Go Abbi!
This was so cool, Abby! And you needn't have been afraid to speak on this record, you have done so far better than I ever could have attempted!
I always enjoy that the presentations are like little plays, with structure, costumes and information . Coltrane did play with a singer on only one album , a guy with a mezzo bass tone, Johnny Hartman.
A what? A mezzo bass? There's no such thing. Johnny Hartman was a baritone. This just goes to add weight to my theory is that the people who watch this channel are just as big a bunch of know-nothings than the creator is
well, ya hit a home run kid! I loved this episode, as a Coltrane and jazz fan, I must say, it took me a lot of plays to absorb this album. and that made it so much more of an experience for me. I own most of Coltranes discography, and yes Crescent is so overlooked. Thanks for all the work you put into these vids.
One of my supremely favorite albums. What a nice surprise !
This episode is your best yet. ♡
Congratulations on conquering your fear and producing an excellent episode, Abby! Nicely done. Once again, your ability to mix humor in with analysis - and on a serious subject - stood you in good stead. I laughed a lot, but I also found your insights, well... insightful. I played jazz live (keyboards) for some years, but never at the level of a McCoy Tyner or a John Coltrane. But this is a great album and you did it justice, I think. I found myself agreeing with your points and giving you a thumbs-up for various things you said (you saw me doing that, didn't you?). There was only one point where I thought you might have missed the point. It's my belief that "Resolution" is not about resolving (i.e. finishing) anything; it's more aligned with resolving to accomplish something, akin to a New Year's Resolution but hopefully a bit more solid than that. Such an interpretation might explain why the music does what it does in that movement.
Also, if you ever cover "Close To The Edge" by Yes, you'll have a shorter track listing (three songs!) than A Love Supreme. And if you cover Yes' "Tales From Topographic Oceans", you'll tie A Love Supreme - four tracks over two records, one for each side.
There is an entire book about the Coltrane Church; I'll be honest, I've not been able to get through the whole thing. I'll accomplish it eventually ("resolved" to do so).
If you want to become more comfortable with keyboards in jazz, I'd recommend two albums which contain my two favorite jazz tracks of all time. Monty Alexander's "We've Only Just Begun" (BASF or MPS records) and the opening track "It Could Happen To You" (piano trio); and Jimmy McGriff's "The Way You Look Tonight" (Solid State records) and the title track (organ trio). I first heard these tracks in 1972 on a Philadelphia jazz radio station (WWDB) and eventually found used copies of the vinyl. Discogs lists both at pretty low prices.
And now I can't wait for next week's album, as I find it fascinating. It was the first album from that artist that I bought (though I'd heard "Smash Hits" from a library copy, I think). I will say that the box set from a couple of years ago has a few better performances than those on this album, but ONLY a few.
Keep up the fantastic work! Thanks!
Without a doubt A Love Supreme is a work of heightened genius, virtually unequaled in a genre of artistic endeavour. We will never see its like again.
THEE GREATEST ARTIST TO EVER WALK THE EARTH!!! 🙌🙌 Trane is my biggest hero! Sun Ship is my personal favourite album of his, but man is A Love Supreme ever important to me 🖤🖤
Wow! I'm very impressed with your review of this album. Great title too.
This is my favorite Jazz Album. You did a fantastic job covering the great Album. I am a Jazz musician , you get this album.
"A Love Supreme" looms large in my life and I was shocked and so excited last week when I saw that you were going to cover it. You did a great job on a record that means something different for everyone. The beginning of "Resolution" was the theme to my college soul radio show and is now my ringtone. I've been known to listen to this record 3 times in a row and get something different out of it each time. I've tried to meditate, but can't relax my mind enough, but THIS RECORD is the closest I get to meditation. Jazz (mostly hard bop) is how I relax and I guess, meditate. "A Love Supreme" is in my top 5 records of any genre of all-time and I just loved seeing you cover it and give it love and attention. It's easy to see how a religion built itself around such an amazing work of a mortal man and his love for his god.
I love that you did a jazz episode! I'm never sure whether or not to cover the jazz albums, because it'd be so easy to get too technical, and because it can be a divisive genre. Thanks for going there!
This was a really great review. Only two albums have this complete transportation to another realm for me. A Love Supreme and Wish You Were Here.
After watching your review, I listened to this while browsing psych art. A pleasant experience.
I love this album! Really loved your take as well
Wonderful episode, thanks for covering this true masterpiece in every sense of the word. What a "supergroup" and what an incredible monument to all that is sacred in life, love and art. Any honestly creative endeavor is an uncertain journey the artist embarks upon to seek out, embrace and fully celebrate that which is holy and resides within one's soul. In this performance, Trane and the band deliver what is undoubtedly one of the most vivid descriptions of that sacred journey to the heart of divinity in man ever captured in the history of recorded music. Well done, Abby!
It kinda surprises me that of the several vinyls I've encountered during my trips to Walmart, THIS is among them. No other jazz albums- not even in CDs.
Super interesting review of an album (or suite) everybody should listen at least once. I personally think of it as a challenging piece of music that moved the dial forward in tonality, modality, and other technicalities... One should never be afraid of records like Kind of Blue, Smokin' at the Half Note by Wes Montgomery, or this one. Jazz is NOT music for the "musically educated" or the "elites". The only thing jazz snob people achieve is driving potential fans away.
So congratulations on this one. Great analysis.
Your ignorance is profound. You do have to have at least some basic comprension of how music works and what the musician is trying to achieve in order to understand jass. Your statement just legitimizes lazy listeners, like our commentator, who can't be bothered respecting what the musicians have laboured to do.
@@thisyearswalrus6837 Hahahahahaha you're right. Next.
@@JavierMoreno1 There's just no need to patronize her. It's cruel and it just makes her go further out in things she in no way understands, making a bigger fool of herself
@@thisyearswalrus6837 I don't care. Music is entertainment, period. You should know that because that's what JAZZ is about. By the way, she has a channel with content, you don't. Give me something to talk about.
@@JavierMoreno1 You were going well until you said "she has a channel with content" and I thought "she does, but the content is her. She is consistently unengaged in anyway with the musc, has no original insight or offers little context to the music, but she sure does market the heck out of herself".
I'm with you here. Elvin Jones is THE MAN!... and obviously a major influence on one o' my other favorite drummers Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull.) McCoy Tyner is so fantastic on keyboards (check out his album Fly With The Wind.) When you quote "You have to come to the music yourself gradually. Not everything can be received with open arms."...I am reminded of my first negative reaction to Captain Beefheart. It took multiple listens 'n states o' mind to finally "get" Trout Mask Replica 'n Lick My Decals Off, Baby. But once it clicks you have a revelation! Thanks for this insightful journey into John Coltrane-A Love Supreme. The timing is perfect as I just purchased the 2 cd version.
Thanks! This record holds so many memories for me! I worked at a music store in high school circa the 1990s and was surrounded by jazz and jazz players. I was a punk rock kid. My friend/mentor Bill M. (A former H.S. English teacher) took me under his wing. He was the best saxophonist I have ever met. So I got introduced to jazz and Kurt Vonnegut and it was a life changing experience. I'm from Philadelphia so I always felt a huge connection to Coltrane. Anyway back in the 70's Bill met Naima Coltrane on a bus. He was gushing saying how great her ex-husband was! So Naima said..."He was a wonderful musician. But he never took out the trash!" 😂 R.I.P Bill! One of the truly greatest persons I have ever known.
Superb job of sharing intelligent thoughts on a close listening to a jazz classic. I have not listened to A Love Supreme in a while and there is no escaping it after listening to your commentary, I will be relistening soon. BTW, for another dip into Coltrane, a personal favorite is his Ballads record. Thanks for the inspiration.
that hand written sheet of music is rad, it basically has all 4 parts on one page with a simple description of the form and parts- you can see the 4 parts there- part 3 starts with a bass solo and so on.
but he didn’t write out everything- the drums say like they have a rhythmic motif so it’s a similar beat but there’s still a lot of room for players to express themselves.
it reminds me of the modal jazz of kind of blue but a bit more structured.
the liner notes to kind of blue written by bill evans have a great perspective on modal jazz and improvisation, it’s rad!!
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Slightly bittersweet hearing Alice Coltrane mentioned. She didn't play any gigs for years, and then lined up a few, including the Barbican in London. I had a ticket for that....and then she died a few weeks before she was due to play. What a drag, one of my missed opportunities.
Probably the greatest spiritual jazz album. Excellent, heartfelt review. More jazz, please.
Really enjoyed this review. Tongue in cheek entertaining and approachable as well as deeply insightful & respectful. 👍
I know someone’s gonna request Ornette Coleman on every single post like the Zappa guy once did
i miss zappa guy :( the mascot of the comments section! i hope he’s well
@@abigaildevoe completely unrelated but you should check out Pharaoh Sanders’ Karma if you love A Love Supreme, it’s kinda like it’s weirder younger brother
I love this album and Coltrane's music. What a beautiful analysis. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I loved what you had to say. A lotta great insights and some great research and writing (and improv! I assume you work from a script, but it doesn't feel like it).
Kudos to you getting in the ring with this giant record. Nice job.
Nothing to be scared of. Embrace it, and it will enrich your life immeasurably. It's only 33 minutes long 😂
I’m a big fan of Coltrane . Love this episode of vinyl Monday
Thank you for educating me on this great music. ♒️🙋♂️
Great album & review Abby,extremely fitting since we lost Mr Kramer so recently. Your reaction & take on this mirrors my own,albeit 45 yrs earlier when I was a teen. Without getting TOO deeply spiritual about it,I think ALL music is SOUL music,& the best songs function as a form of prayer,at least to me. Thank you for this
if one thinks an all knowing being is watching at all times, then every action in life is, in fact, a prayer .
“all music is soul music” is a comforting idea. i like it
Congrats for having the courage to review this album, Abby. It's a terrific review! Not just some dry technical analysis, but rather a heartfelt response to this beautiful, challenging, spiritually-inspired music. You continue to impress and inspire me with your album reviews. I'm glad you faced your fears and tackled all aspects of the music head-on, such as the spirituality that informs it. I'm not religious either, but rather spiritual -- I've practiced daily meditation for 50 years, lived in spiritual communities/ashrams, etc., so I appreciate that you're sympathetic to that dimension. (Also, kudos to the Bhagavad Gita references!) .
I visited the Coltrane Church in the early 90s, it was a wonderful and memorable experience. I think it’s still open and they still invite anyone to attend. You should check it out next time you’re in the Bay Area! :)
Congrats for coming around to St John
I’m one of those unfortunate people who didn’t “get” jazz, then I watched La La Land and it quickly became one of my favourite genres, this album is an absolute essential
la la land and whiplash: both movies i loved, both movies are gateways to jazz (whether the pretentious-type jazzheads like it or not!)
Birdman won best pictue and Antino Sanchez played Jazz drums@@abigaildevoe
Great job, Abbie. “A Love Supreme” is a masterpiece. Some people - even those who listen to a lot of jazz - find this album difficult. I never did, though. Much of the music he did post-ALS might not be for the faint of heart, but I always found this record to be just stunning. This was without a doubt one of the best small jazz groups ever, even if it was about to fragment (McCoy and Elvin left the year after this was recorded). Elvin was a master. His use of poly-rhythms had me convinced there were two drummers playing on some of the early sixties Coltrane recordings. As genius as his work with Coltrane was, I also love the sessions he did on Blue Note records in the mid-sixties. He’s not as aggressive and his drums just seem to dance (check out his playing on “Wives and Lovers” on the Grant Green “Solid” album). And you’re right - “Crescent” is also wonderful.
You did a fine job. Music is about feelings and if it continues to speak to you then you and John both made points. Keep exploring and pushing the music. If have a large audience and I hope it reaches one person to listen. Thank you
Hello Abigail,
I'm glad you've been touched by the magnificence of Coltrane and "A Love Supreme". Thanks also for mentioning the beautiful album "Crescent", which was the first Coltrane album I bought, as a teenager in 1972. I never saw Coltrane live; he died in 1967, which is just before the time I started getting into jazz. I have however been fortunate enough to see the late McCoy Tyner three times and Elvin Jones twice and these were indeed special moments. Bear with me; I'm going to cut and paste something I've posted in a few other TH-cam videos where the topic was John Coltrane. It's about something that I did in college:
"The most epic listening session, however, was in college, around 1975 or 76. I like many musical genres, but by that time the music I listened to most frequently was jazz and of course the great saxophonist John Coltrane was a musical hero to me and several friends. We concocted a plan to listen to all the John Coltrane albums we could get together, in chronological order, in one marathon session, which we called "The Coltrane Lock-In". I think there were four of us that were the main participants. Between all of us, and borrowing a few more albums from some other friends, we put together about 30 Coltrane albums, or maybe a few more. The entire lock-in lasted just a little under 24 hours. The core group of us were there for the entire time, but I lived in a communal house and several other friends and housemates would come in and listen for an hour or two, then pop in the room the following morning and say: "Are you guys really still at it?"...LOL. We heard the incredible evolution of Coltrane as an artist through his roughly 10 year career as a solo artist, starting with his late fifties hard bop period on Prestige and Blue Note records ("Blue Trane", "Black Pearls", "Bahia" etc.). Then onto his stuff on Atlantic records with the ground breaking "Giant Steps" as well as "Coltrane Plays the Blues", "My Favorite Things", "Coltrane Jazz", "Ole" etc., and then into his increasingly spiritual and unbelievably powerful records from the early and mid sixties on the Impulse label like "Africa Brass", "Crescent", "Impressions", "Live at Birdland", "Coltrane", "Live at the Village Vanguard", "Ballads", "Selflessness", the majestic masterpiece "A Love Supreme" etc., etc. The final six or seven records were the very wild, so-called free jazz stuff from the last couple years of his life (1966 and 67) like "Ascension", "Meditations", "Sun Ship", "Live in Seattle" etc., ending with the somewhat somber but beautiful "Expressions". About half way through the Lock-In one or more of the core participants may, or may not, have ingested some very strong mind-altering substance that may, or may not, have aided in our understanding the avant garde music of Coltrane's late period. Anyway, it was time very well spent...LOL."
First time viewer to this channel. Abigail, I'm super impressed by your vast knowledge of music. I thought I knew a lot after 64 years, but you have me beat. Thanks for your take on A Love Supreme. I learned a lot.
Go big or go home indeed! A Love Supreme is a perfect album.
Real Moment: John says to Miles "man I can't stop playing!" and Miles responded (deep whisper) "take the horn out of your mouth".
he would have had to take the horn out of his mouth in order to say "man I can't stop playing!"
@@AnEverydayHouseholdItem - that did occur to me, though I heard the story years ago, just as I was typing the comment. Be well and take the horn out of your mouth every little once in a while. Or not. I'm glad John was that passionate.
Oh....never be afraid of the greatest Jazz album of all time lol. I remember hearing this (first couple of minutes of Acknowledgment) in a movie back when I was a teen and was solely listening to hip/hop, hair metal, and new wave and EVEN THEN I just remember being so moved by this "sax playing" and I had no idea why. It doesn't speak to Jazz listeners, this album speaks to any human spirit!
Very eloquent review, Abi! What a monolith A Love Supreme is. Being a guitar player, it falls very comfortably in your hands. It's very clear why so many guitarists gravitated to this album and Kind of Blue. Ole is also tremendous.
Ole Coltrane is happening
And that’s it. You did it. Well done you, not only that you did it justice, you did it well. The most important thing being your obvious passion along with your advice that anyone can understand this, that this is not elitism. My takeaways? Who knew that there was some kind of church of Coltrane that had him down as God? What next? Sky church?
New ground, new era same old insightful and illuminating presentation. As a long time passenger of the ‘trane who’s love supreme is music I loved this presentation. Well done 👍.
I ✨love✨ this episode. For so many reasons 😩 You are such a brilliant lady, Miss Abby. I mean that literally…you are so smart it makes my heart burst to hear your personal impressions of this music while tying it all up in one very groovy bow. I admit I haven’t been able to watch full episodes in a long while (I watch 60 seconds every Monday tho I promise heheh) but damn. Congratulations to me for picking this one to get back into it LOL ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yee. Mega Simp there.
@@AnEverydayHouseholdItem Have you read the whole blazing dumpster fire of a comment section? I'm amazed some of these guys could type their comments, seeing they were fapping so hard with the other hand
@@AnEverydayHouseholdItemI’m sorry no one loves you
The way you do those pauses and then like punchline style dramatic emphases on the words, Abigail!! “The greatest jazz album……. EVER!!!!!!” So priceless. This is why I ❤️ VM!!!!
Trane did an album of all vocals with Johnny Hartman. Thanks for diving in here.
I have a 'live' recording of A Love Supreme done in France in 1965... Its like going to heaven...
The consistency in the quality of your reviews is just second to none. I would be interested in learning a little about the process of how you chose which albums to review and those you put to one side for a rainy day. Thanks for all you do.
there’s so much in my collection i’d love to cover but just doesn’t have the audience for a full episode: francoise hardy, tommy james, lots of john mayall live recordings, pretty much everything after 2010. it’s a matter of weighing what there’s an audience for and not doing too much of the same thing in a row (i even feel bad when i cover 2 albums released in the same year back-to-back!)
other than that, it’s simple really. if i love it (or i’m just curious about it,) it goes on the albums list
@@abigaildevoe Thanks, Abigail. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I am happy to wait sans bated breath for Steely Dan when sufficient demographics meet the requirements. :)
Two things:
1) Like a lot of folks, my aversion to jazz has less to do with the music than the fans. I have been avoiding this album because of the "eat it junior, its good for you" attitude from folks who insist that their refined taste makes them smarter than me. Your review managed to be smart without the rarified pretensions that we usually get from discussions of jazz, and your enthusiasm is 100% genuine. Maybe its because you are neither a snob nor a dude. At any rate, you have convinced me to check it out.
2) Wayne Kramer's last version of the MC5 included two friends of mine, and they are both beside themselves. Kramer was apparently a beautiful human being and a generous soul who had a profound impact on their lives even in a relatively short time. Heck, his passing got me in a funk and I did not even know him, degrees of separation notwithstanding. It is a colossal bummer that I missed seeing them and maybe that is part of the reason that I am feeling a bit hollow. It seems that you feel the same way. Consider this a virtual hug.
I love these vids! You are a queen 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
Excellent job! Looking forward to more jazz reviews.
I saw Elvin Jones live on his last UK tour. He was in his early 70s and without question the greatest drummer I've ever seen - still had that polyrhythm magic!! I got to meet him afterward and he was really cool - even gave me a hug!
Yeah, Elvin is known for his huge bear hugs. What a beautiful man he was, with dear friends everywhere he went,
In the sixties I went to the light house church of jazz club specifically to see him, leading his group. , only because I knew he was a famous jazz player, not because I had an understanding of drumming . I was too young to be in the club, but took a seat next to his drum kit at the edge of the stage, as I usually did , hoping to learn something. All I learned was that east coast dress style included silk socks, as his dress shoes were prominent in my sight line
I had seen Buddy Rich lead a band and put on a bombastic solo display , and I guess I expected something like that , since all the big rock acts always gave the drummer a spotlight recognition . The guy played only accompaniment all night , using only brushes, and I was kind of disappointed , not comprehending the scene . I barely remember the man looking down and giving me a quizzical glance before he started work.
A Love Supreme is one of the reasons why I'm still a Christian and still alive. :)