A Love Supreme#2002 deluxe edition

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A Love Supreme is a through-composed suite{{Cite news |issn=1553-8095 |oclc=1645522 |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=2024-03-02 |date=2021-10-19 |last=Russonello |first=Giovanni |title=What a Rare, Live 'A Love Supreme' Reveals About John Coltrane |department=Critic's Notebook |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/arts/music/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-live-in-seattle.html}} in four parts: {{anchor|Acknowledgement (song)}}"Acknowledgement" (which includes the oral chant that gives the album its name), "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm". Coltrane plays tenor saxophone on all parts. One critic has written that the album was intended to represent a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's talent comes from a higher power. The album’s improvisational and spiritual intensity has led some to liken it to glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, as it conveys a profound sense of ecstatic devotion.{{Cite journal |last=Rowlands |first=Jonathan |date=20 Mar 2019 |title=John Coltrane's A Love Supreme as Prayed Glossolalia: A Suggestion. |journal=Journal of Pentecostal Theology |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages={{!}}page=84–102 |doi=10.1163/17455251-02801007 |via=Academic Search Premier}} This sacred quality has led it to become the “central text” of the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in San Francisco.{{Cite web |last=Tsioulcas |first=Anastasia |date=23 September 2020 |title=Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/915846867/five-decades-on-an-eclectic-church-preaches-the-message-of-john-coltrane |access-date=8 December 2024 |website=NPR}} Coltrane's home in Dix Hills, Long Island, may have inspired the album.Kahn 2002 Another influence may have been Ahmadiyya Islam.{{cite book|last1=Hammer|first1=Juliane|last2=Safi|first2=Omid|title=The Cambridge Companion to American Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBPKKFUyZaUC&pg=PA285|access-date=December 15, 2014|date=12 August 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-00241-8|pages=285–}}

According to assistant music editor at Time Out John Lewis, the album "pulls off the rare track of being utterly uncompromising yet completely accessible."{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=John |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die |publisher=Universe Publishing |year=2005 |publication-date=January 1, 2005 |pages=78}}

The album begins with the bang of a gong (tam-tam) and cymbal washes on the first track, "Acknowledgement". Jimmy Garrison enters on double bass with the four-note motif that lays the foundation of the movement. Coltrane begins a solo. He plays variations on the motif until he repeats the four notes thirty-six times. The motif then becomes the vocal chant "a love supreme", sung by Coltrane accompanying himself through overdubs nineteen times.Porter, 231–249. According to Rolling Stone, this movement's four-note theme is "the humble foundation of the suite".

In the fourth and final movement, "Psalm", Coltrane performs what he calls a "musical narration". Lewis Porter calls it a "wordless recitation".Porter, 244. The devotional is included in the liner notes. Coltrane "plays" the words of the poem on saxophone but doesn't speak them. Some scholars have suggested that this performance is an homage to the sermons of African-American preachers.Porter, 246–247. The poem (and, in his own way, Coltrane's solo) ends with the cry, "Elation. Elegance. Exaltation. All from God. Thank you God. Amen."Porter, 248.

A Love Supreme was categorized by Rockdelux as modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, hard bop, and post-bop.{{cite web|last=Casas|first=Quim|date=December 23, 2015|url=http://www.rockdelux.com/discos/p/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters.html|title=A Love Supreme|website=Rockdelux|access-date=August 3, 2018|language=es}}

An alternative version of "Acknowledgement" was recorded the next day on December 10 with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and a second bassist, Art Davis. This version omitted Coltrane chanting "a love supreme"; he preferred the quartet version with the chant, placing that on the issued album. There are two known live recordings of the "Love Supreme" suite. For years the only known live recording of the "Love Supreme" suite was of a performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes in Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 26, 1965. On October 29, 2002, the album was reissued as a remastered deluxe edition by Impulse! Records with this live performance and the alternate takes on a bonus disc.A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition. 1997; Impulse! Records 314 589 945-2, back cover notes. A further iteration with more studio breakdowns and overdubs was issued as a three-disc complete masters edition released by Impulse! on November 20, 2015.Porter, 249. The other known live recording of the suite was recorded October 2, 1965, at The Penthouse in Seattle. The set was recorded by saxophonist Joe Brazil. This live performance was released on October 22, 2021, by Impulse! as A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle.{{Cite news|last=Russonello|first=Giovanni|date=2021-10-19|title=What a Rare, Live 'A Love Supreme' Reveals About John Coltrane|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/arts/music/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-live-in-seattle.html|access-date=2021-10-22|issn=0362-4331}}

{{Music ratings

| title = Contemporary professional ratings

| rev1 = Down Beat

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite news |last=DeMicheal |first=Don |publication-date=April 8, 1965 |title=Spotlight Review: John Coltrane- A Love Supreme |periodical=Down Beat |page=27}}

| rev2 = Record Mirror

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Jones (journalist) |last2= Jopling |first2= Norman |date=3 July 1965 |title=John Coltrane: A Love Supreme |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/65/Record-Mirror-1965-07-03-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=Record Mirror |issue=225 |page=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225441/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/65/Record-Mirror-1965-07-03-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=18 August 2022}}

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Released in January 1965 by Impulse! Records,{{cite book|page=48|author=Anon.|title=The Mojo Collection| edition=4th|publisher=Canongate Books|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84767-643-6|chapter=A Love Supreme|editor1-first=Jim|editor1-last=Irvin|editor1-link=Jim Irvin|editor2-first=Colin|editor2-last=McLear|title-link=The Mojo Collection}} A Love Supreme became one of the most acclaimed jazz records,{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-year = 1992|edition = 8th.|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 0-14-102327-9|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/273 273–4]|chapter = John Coltrane|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/273}} and contemporary critics hailed it as one of the important albums of post-war jazz.{{cite magazine|magazine=Black Music & Jazz Review|year=1982|volume=5|page=25|author=Anon.|title=John Coltrane}} By 1970, it had sold about 500,000 copies, far exceeding Coltrane's usual sales of 30,000,Porter, 232. although it never charted on the Billboard 200. It has since been regarded as Coltrane's masterpiece{{cite journal|last=Gayford|first=Martin|date=November 9, 2002|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3585518/Sublime-if-youre-in-the-mood.html|title=Sublime - if you're in the mood|journal=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=July 2, 2016}} and is "without question Coltrane's most beloved album", according to Robert Christgau, who adds that it "cemented 'Trane's divine status in Japan".

{{Music ratings

| title = Retrospective professional ratings

| rev1 = All About Jazz

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web|last=Spencer|first=Robert|year=1997|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-love-supreme-john-coltrane-impulse-review-by-robert-spencer.php?width=1366|title=John Coltrane: A Love Supreme|work=All About Jazz|access-date=July 2, 2016}}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r136933|pure_url=yes}} |title=A Love Supreme Overview |author=Samuelson, Sam|website=AllMusic |access-date=October 17, 2009}}

| rev3 = And It Don't Stop

| rev3score = A−{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=April 8, 2020|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-guide-april-2020|title=Consumer Guide: April, 2020|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=Substack|access-date=April 28, 2020|url-access=subscription}}

| rev4 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|chapter=John Coltrane|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|edition=5th|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev5 = MusicHound Jazz

| rev5score = 5/5{{cite book|editor1-last=Holtje|editor1-first=Steve|editor2-last=Lee|editor2-first=Nancy Ann|year=1998|title=MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Music Sales Corporation|isbn=0-8256-7253-8|chapter=John Coltrane|title-link=MusicHound}}

| rev6 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev6score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=167}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 10/10{{Cite web |last=Richardson |first=Mark |date=25 November 2015 |title=A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21158-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605212808/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21158-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters/ |archive-date=5 June 2022 |access-date=18 August 2022 |website=Pitchfork}}

| rev8 = Q

| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite news |publication-date=October 1995 |title=A Love Supreme |periodical=Q |page=136 }}

| rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}Wolk, Douglas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA182 "John Coltrane"] in Hoard, Christian and Nathan Brackett, eds (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Fireside Books, pp. 182–185.

| rev10 = Tom Hull – on the Web

| rev10score = A+{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=April 13, 2020|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2836-Music-Week.html|title=Music Week|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=July 17, 2020}}

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A Love Supreme was widely recognized as a work of deep spirituality and analyzed with religious subtext, although cultural studies scholars Richard W. Santana and Gregory Erickson argued that the "avant-garde jazz suite" could be interpreted otherwise.{{cite book|last1=Santana|first1=Richard W.| last2=Erickson| first2=Gregory|pages=78–81|title=Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred|publisher=McFarland & Company| year=2008|isbn=978-0786435531}} According to music professor Ingrid Monson of Harvard University, the album was an exemplary recording of modal jazz.{{cite book|title=The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|editor-last=Koskoff|editor-first=Ellen|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415994033|chapter=Jazz: From Birth to the 1970s| page=359|last=Monson|first=Ingrid}} Nick Dedina wrote on the Rhapsody web site that the music ranged from free jazz and hard bop to sui generis gospel music in "an epic aural poem to man's place in God's plan".{{cite web|url=http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/john-coltrane/album/a-love-supreme-bonus-tracks|title=A Love Supreme (Bonus Tracks) by John Coltrane|publisher=Rhapsody|access-date=July 2, 2016}} Calling it a "legendary album-long hymn of praise", Rolling Stone said that "Coltrane's majestic, often violent blowing (famously described as 'sheets of sound') is never self-aggrandizing" and that he is "aloft with his classic quartet", "soar[ing] with nothing but gratitude and joy" on a compelling journey for listeners. The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1985) said that "each man performs with eloquence and economy", while calling the album "the masterpiece from the quartet's studio work", "the first comprehensive statement of Coltrane's spiritual concerns", and "the cornerstone of many Coltrane collections".{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | page = 47}} On the other hand, jazz critic Tom Hull said that he has not much considered the album "spiritual" but rather "the most perfectly plotted single piece of jazz ever recorded".

A Love Supreme has appeared on professional listings of the greatest albums. In 2003, it was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone{{'}}s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time;Staff. [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/35470 RS 500: 47) A Love Supreme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126165348/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/35470 |date=November 26, 2010 }}. Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 5, 2010. maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/john-coltrane-a-love-supreme-165962/|year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=Rolling Stone| access-date= September 23, 2019}} re-ranking at number 66 in a 2020 reboot of the list.{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-10-09|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}} NME ranked it number 188 on a similar list in 2013.{{cite web| url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/10/the-top-500-albums-of-all-time-according-to-nme/?iframe=true&preview=true|title=The Top 500 Albums of All Time, according to NME|last=Kaye|first=Ben|date=October 25, 2013|work=Consequence of Sound| access-date=July 2, 2016}} The manuscript for the album was included in the National Museum of American History's "Treasures of American History" collection at the Smithsonian Institution.{{cite web|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=143&pagekey=222|title= A Love Supreme|publisher=National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution|access-date=May 28, 2008}} In 2015, the album was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance."{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-056.html|title=National Recording Registry Recognizes 'Mack the Knife,' Motown and Mahler|work=Library of Congress| date=March 23, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2017}} It is Coltrane's second album to be included after Giant Steps in 2005.{{Cite web |url=https://www.longislandernews.com/half-hollow-hills-archives/john-coltranes-a-love-supreme-composed-in-dix-hills-added-to-national-registry |title=John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Composed in Dix Hills, Added to National Registry |date=March 31, 2016 |work=Long Islander News |last=Law |first=Janee}} It was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.{{cite book|editor1-last=Dimery|editor1-first=Robert|title=1001 albums you must hear before you die|date=2010|publisher=Universe|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2|edition=Rev. and updated}} It was voted number 85 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).{{cite book|title=All Time Top 1000 Albums|author=Colin Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=70}}

File:Carlos Santana-2 1978 by Chris Hakkens.jpg (1978), one of many rock musicians to have been deeply influenced by the album]]

According to Joachim-Ernst Berendt, the album's hymn-like quality permeated modern jazz and rock music.{{cite book| title=The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century|page=152|year=2009|publisher=Chicago Review Press |last=Berendt |first=Joachim-Ernst|author-link=Joachim-Ernst Berendt|isbn=978-1613746042}} As Christgau explains, the record was "adored by American hippies from the Byrds and Carlos Santana on down, and served as theme music to Lester Bangs's wake at CBGB". Musicians such as Joshua Redman[http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/john_coltrane_redman.html "The A Love Supreme Interviews" (Joshua Redman discusses John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"), on Jerry Jazz Musician] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130126212814/http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/john_coltrane_redman.html |date=January 26, 2013 }} and U2,Palmer, Robert, [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/25/arts/pop-jazz-guide-a-tribute-to-john-coltrane-s-spirit.html "A Tribute to John Coltrane's Spirit"], The New York Times, September 25, 1987. who mention the album in their song "Angel of Harlem",Kahn, xxii. have mentioned the influence of the album on their own work. Both Santana and fellow guitarist John McLaughlin have called the album one of their biggest early influences and recorded Love Devotion Surrender in 1973 as a tribute.{{cite book|last=Stump|first=Paul|title=Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDFqHbV5K7cC&pg=PA65| year=2000|publisher=SAF|isbn=9780946719242| page=65}} "Every so often this ceases to be a jazz record and is more avant-garde contemporary classical," said Neil Hannon of the band The Divine Comedy. "I love the combination of abstract piano that's all sort of 'clang', and weird chords with wailing saxophone over the top."{{cite journal|last1=Thornton|first1=Anthony|title=Neil Hannon's Record Collection|journal=Q|date=November 1998|issue=146|page=67}}

In The Penguin Guide to Jazz, Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave A Love Supreme a rare "crown" rating but asked whether it was "the greatest jazz album of the modern period..or the most overrated?" Miles Davis, Coltrane's former bandleader, said the record "reached out and influenced those people who were into peace. Hippies and people like that".

Christgau, writing in 2020, said, "it's meditative rather than freewheeling, with each member of his classic quartet instructed to embark on his own harmonically mapped excursion and the title set to a chanted four-note melody you could hum in your sleep. I'm on my fourth consecutive play with no signs of tune fatigue as I write, plus my wife loves it. All true, all remarkable. But how much you value it, I expect, depends on how much faith you place in your own spirituality." He concluded that the next time he will listen to the album "may well depend on who dies when".

All tracks composed by John Coltrane and published by Jowcol Music (BMI)

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;Side two

;Disc one

;Disc two

;Disc 1 – The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77

1. "Acknowledgement" – 7:42
2. "Resolution" – 7:20
3. "Pursuance" – 10:41
4. "Psalm" – 7:05

; – Original Mono Reference Masters

1. "Pursuance" – 10:42
2. "Psalm" – 7:02

;Disc 2 – Quartet Session, December 9, 1964

1. "Acknowledgement" (vocal overdub 2) – 2:00
2. "Acknowledgement" (vocal overdub 3) – 2:05
3. "Resolution" (take 4/ alternate) – 7:25
4. "Resolution" (take 6/ breakdown) – 2:13
5. "Psalm" (undubbed version) – 6:59

; – Sextet Session, December 10, 1964

1. "Acknowledgement" (Take 1 / alternate) – 9:24
2. "Acknowledgement" (Take 2 / alternate) – 9:47
3. "Acknowledgement" (Take 3 / breakdown with studio dialogue) – 1:26
4. "Acknowledgement" (Take 4 / alternate) – 9:04
5. "Acknowledgement" (Take 5 / false start) – 0:34
6. "Acknowledgement" (Take 6 / alternate) – 12:33

;Disc 3 – Live at Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965

1. Introduction by André Francis and John Coltrane – 1:13
2. "Acknowledgement (Live)" – 6:12
3. "Resolution (Live)" – 11:37
4. "Pursuance (Live)" – 21:30
5. "Psalm (Live)" – 8:49

Disc 3 is included only with the "Super Deluxe Edition" version of this release.

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• John Coltrane – bandleader, liner notes, vocals, tenor saxophone{{cite web|url=http://religiondispatches.org/saint-john-coltrane-fifty-years-of-a-love-supreme/|title=Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of 'A Love Supreme'|date=December 8, 2014|work=religiondispatches.org|access-date=February 18, 2017}}
• McCoy Tyner – piano
• Jimmy Garrison – double bass
• Elvin Jones – drums, gong, timpani

• Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone on alternate takes of "Acknowledgement"
• Art Davis – double bass on alternate takes of "Acknowledgement"
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineering and mastering
• Bob Thiele – production and cover photo{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/03/28/295470520/a-love-supreme-comes-alive-in-unearthed-photos |newspaper=NPR |last=Jarenwattananon |first=Patrick |title=A Love Supreme Comes Alive in Unearthed Photos |date=March 28, 2014}}
• George Gray/Viceroy – cover design
• Victor Kalin – gatefold illustration
• Joe Lebow – liner design

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• Erick Labson – digital remastering (CD reissue)
• Kevin Reeves – mastering (SACD)
• Michael Cuscuna – liner notes, production, and remastering (deluxe edition)
• Joe Alper – photography (CD reissue)
• Jason Claiborne – graphics (CD reissue)
• Hollis King – art direction (CD reissue)
• Lee Tanner – photography (CD reissue)
• Ken Druker – production (deluxe edition)
• Esmond Edwards – photography (deluxe edition)
• Ashley Kahn – liner notes and production (deluxe edition)
• Peter Keepnews – notes editing (deluxe edition)
• Hollis King – art direction (deluxe edition)
• Bryan Koniarz – production (deluxe edition)
• Edward O'Dowd – design (deluxe edition)
• Mark Smith – production assistance (deluxe edition)
• Sherniece Smith – art coordination and production (deluxe edition)
• Chuck Stewart – photography (deluxe edition)
• Bill Levenson – reissue supervisor (SACD)
• Cameron Mizell – production coordination (SACD)
• Ron Warwell – design (SACD)
• Isabelle Wong – package design (SACD)

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• 1965 in jazz
• "Angel of Harlem" – a 1989 U2 song referencing the album
• A Love Surreal – an album by Bilal
• Blue World, an album recorded between Crescent and A Love Supreme released in 2019
• Concept album
• Love of God

{{Reflist}}

• {{Cite book | last = Kahn | first = Ashley | others = Elvin Jones | author-link = Ashley Kahn | title = A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album | publisher = Penguin Books | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-14-200352-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/lovesupremestory00kahna }}
• {{Cite book | last = Porter | first = Lewis | author-link = Lewis Porter | title = John Coltrane: His Life and Music | publisher = University of Michigan Press | year = 1999 | isbn = 0-472-08643-X}}
• {{Cite journal | last = Porter | first = Lewis | title = John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Jazz Improvisation as Composition | journal = Journal of the American Musicological Society | volume = 38 | issue = 3 | pages = 593–621 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1985 | doi =10.1525/jams.1985.38.3.03a00060| url = http://jams.ucpress.edu/content/ucpjams/38/3/593.full.pdf }}

• {{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21158-a-love-supreme-the-complete-masters/ |title=John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters |work=Pitchfork |date=25 November 2015 |access-date=29 July 2021 |last=Richardson |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Richardson (writer)}}
• Whyton, Tony (2013) Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0199733236}}

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