Who's Afraid of A Love Supreme?｜Vinyl Monday

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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.

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 :)

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!

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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.

Much respect: you took on a challenging and difficult subject and didn't get your ass kicked. Or be boring.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

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.

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!

As it‘s lovingly called among us jazz fans, John Coltrane‘s „I Love the Supremes“ ❤

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...

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😊🙌🎵🎼🎵🌏

Yet again you’re the person with the most interesting record content I’ve found in the wild

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.