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A Love Supreme

hy is John Coltrane’s still so resonant nearly 60 years after it was recorded? Much to its credit, it’s short (just over 30 minutes) and to the point. If you’re going to raise a prayer of gratitude to a higher power and layer spiritual meaning onto music, best not belabor the point. In the case of , that kind of brevity also extended to the recording process. The album was tracked in one day—December 9, 1964—by Rudy Van Gelder in his studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Van Gelder also mixed the album. A composed (rather

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