With a new introduction for the 55th anniversary of the album's release, this is Ashley Kahn's seminal work on John Coltrane's masterpiece A Love Supreme
Ashley Kahn is the author Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme: The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album, both published by Granta Books. He is a contributor to Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Mojo. He lives in New Jersey.
We get the man, the mission, the methodology ... a well-researched,
transparently written, passionately felt book
*Independent*
One of the most accessible slices of jazz history you'll
find...mixes biography, a forensic study of the recording process
and an examination of the album's racial, political and spiritual
legacy...a fine journalistic narrative
*Time Out*
Kahn provides a historical and critical overview of Coltrane's life
and work and has also carried out an impressive quantity of
research. [It] is an enjoyable read, with great photographs.
Coltrane's followers will have to get it
*Guardian*
Thoroughly absorbing
*The Times*
Ashley Kahn deftly unpicks the background, describing the context
and making of what was to become the signature modern jazz
album
*Financial Times*
Kahn's book puts you there in the studio, next to Elvin's kit
*Mojo*
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