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

[@abigaildevoe]

what’s your love supreme? comment below ❤️

[@smallshlingus6212]

Freddy Fazbear

[@davidellis5141]

Musically ? Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen is my all-time favorite album.

[@DeusExCanis]

My wife. I'm not terribly original, but love will do just fine for me.

[@LiGht-Youtube-0309]

This doesn't have to do with the question just wanted to say this is one of your best episodes

[@ossiejon-nwakalo8644]

I have to say I have Love Devotion Surrender and Life Divine is an amazing piece of music. Two guitar gods going at it!

[@childrenofminervaofficial4316]

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.

[@BeckyLStoutWriter]

7:12 "Both an artist and a muse." Life goals for me, my friend. I'm only halfway there so far, but . . . 🙏

[@SurferJoe1]

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

[@Azkea]

Thank you for this video!! I am new to your channel and while I had listened to Love Supreme previously, I had no idea about all the backstory of the record and going into it again with this newfound knowledge really helped me get a new appreciation for this great album. I also discovered the live recording from France through your video, and it was so much fun to listen to!!

[@myhamismad]

Kurt Elling has an incredible singing version of Resolution after which I have never listened to the original Resolution the same again

[@Bigandrewm]

Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling composed a "jazz vocalese" to Resolution, and his recordings are great. He did it with his own ensemble on his album "Man In The Air" and also on Bob Mintzer's album "Old School: New Lessons" where Bob took Elling's vocalese and wrote an arrangement for full jazz orchestra.

[@michaelgrossman9457]

8:53 - I'm not a jazz musician, though I play interpretations of some jazz standards, This is my take, but real jazz musicians correct me where I'm wrong (it's also hard to read when notes on written on the actual score lines). Coltrane is mapping out the different parts. Part I - Horn starts out in E natural, drums kick in with a specific beat (I don't read percussion music scores), bass and piano start in with E flat minor. The horn starts the first theme of the song before going into a solo in 4/4 time. Hard to read the rest of Part I handwriting. Part II is in B flat minor with a quick bar of specific notes though that might be the piano solo, which is followed by another horn solo and then goes back to the melody. Part III looks to be a bass solo in C minor, and I can't easily make out the rest of the handwriting clear enough to comment, but maybe the Horn starts Part IV. My best guess.

[@henrycadman5564]

A Love Supreme is one of the reasons why I'm still a Christian and still alive. :)

[@nakim55]

Greatest record ever made.

[@PennStacker]

I just bought this record. Thanks!!

[@BarbarraBay]

@6:01 the best part of the video

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

the makeup and look and hair is perfect this time

[@refinedrapture_]

A love supreme A love supreme A love supreme

[@LaNwamNi]

Supreme, supreme

[@jazz2818-ib1ql]

A love supreme A love supreme

[@kellypeterson2625]

Impressive rendering of giant steps by Abigail

[@robertpeterson8640]

At 17 during the beginning of my senior year of high school, Ibought a very used VW Beetle for $500. I installed an 8-track tape deck in it and this is the first recording I bought to play in it so this record has a lot of good memories for me. The next week I got Weather Report and John McLaughlin.

[@jackneidinger9544]

In 2002, they found a much better tape of the album and if you love the music you might want to get a new copy.

[@scottmcgregor4829]

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.

[@abigaildevoe]

that’s beautiful

[@scottmcgregor4829]

@@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??

[@bendancar]

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

[@MrAyla]

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

[@nickhamlyn2458]

You excel yourself with your analysis of this record. Impressive.

[@jacklynam5653]

Everyone: "A love supreme is an incredibly deep, complex album that can take many many relistens over years to fully comprehend" Coltrane: A love supreme A love supreme A love supreme A love supreme

[@mark10thompson]

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!

[@chrisdelisle3954]

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.

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

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!

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

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.

[@Chromexus]

Some of Bruckner's sequences were modal. Wayne Shorter- even pre-Miles-was writing in modes as well.

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

​@Chromexus I am aware of this. George Russell developed the approach in jazz in the 1950s. Most composers were aware of modes, and they were intermittently employed wh 0:00 en composers wanted to expand their tool kits. But Messiaen developed an entire language out of modes.

[@dennismason3740]

Elvin Jones and Ginger Baker had a drum off, probably still in YT.

[@abigaildevoe]

yes they did!! 25 minutes of do what you like. elvin’s quote about ginger lives rent-free in my brain

[@windmaze8735]

I love that running gag where you use "Our Prayer" as a swearing bleep!

[@jriffblue]

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!

[@dannykay125]

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 :)

[@c.l.3820]

Omg Abigail is rad!

[@JavierMoreno1]

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.

[@thisyearswalrus6837]

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.

[@JavierMoreno1]

@@thisyearswalrus6837 Hahahahahaha you're right. Next.

[@thisyearswalrus6837]

@@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

[@JavierMoreno1]

@@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]

@@Handles_allow_KZbin_spying You are right, handles allow youtube spying. (May 2022). Coltrane's good for everybody, despite knowing about Eb9aug chords or just having a good time. Why can't all of you snobs realize you are wasting time and alienating people who want to know and discover?

[@gevowavemagnet]

"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.

[@abigaildevoe]

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

[@anthony_dimaggio]

2:03 your New England accent came out right there haha jk, great video as always, Jazz can be difficult to review but you did a great job imo.

[@abigaildevoe]

it’s inevitable really - just check out the beatles episodes 😭

[@nicpayne8258]

RISE UP ✊🏿

[@rickg8015]

For those newbies who want to first tread lightly, listen to Blue Train, My Favorite Things, maybe even Lush Life, before you step into, A Love Supreme..

[@dariohenriquez7773]

nothing to be afraid of, very entry level

[@musiclistsareus1029]

You don't have to remain naive to music education. A little music theory couldn't hurt; it might be a key to unlock even greater understanding. I have a degree in music theory and composition and i am grateful for it even though i am not a professional musician.

[@arzabael]

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

[@ralphmilano1703]

i found an original copy at the salvation army.

[@billdang3953]

Interesting that Jimmy Hendrix got mentioned in the introduction to this video as he was supposedly inspired by Charlie Christian, the first electric guitar hero.

[@tenkarabadger5244]

You nailed it.

[@fathommusicnz]

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!

[@defaultuser1447]

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has done some biographical songs about women in music. One is "That Alice", about Alice Coltrane.

[@abigaildevoe]

i’ve never heard of this! i’ll have to check it out

[@jama1155]

On COSMIC MUSIC John & Alice open THE SUN with the chant; "May there be peace and love and perfection, throughout all creation, oh God.". So A LOVE SUPREME is not Coltrane's only recorded vocal. OTHERWISE, no notes. Love yr work.

[@marydarko3380]

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

[@abigaildevoe]

la la land and whiplash: both movies i loved, both movies are gateways to jazz (whether the pretentious-type jazzheads like it or not!)

[@31carrier]

Birdman won best pictue and Antino Sanchez played Jazz drums@@abigaildevoe

[@TM10000]

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.

[@davidhanna88]

Wow! I'm very impressed with your review of this album. Great title too.

[@owen8783]

Would love to see more jazz in the future. I think you’d really like Thelonious Monk.

[@abigaildevoe]

i feel like a bad baby-jazzhead for not liking monk more. maybe i’ve been listening to the wrong period?

[@owen8783]

@@abigaildevoe he has a great song called blue monk if you haven’t heard that one yet, that one got me into him. He has a pretty good live album w trane and his album solo monk is pretty good. Check out Dinah it’s a cool short one

[@koolcheems86]

Wow I just stumbled upon you and you're really quite awesome keep it up

[@NP-zt6hy]

Wes Montgomery’s jazz guitar also was pretty influential for psych guitar

[@quintenl9904]

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.

[@SuperStrik9]

Coltrane is incredible. His work with Miles Davis is tremendous as well. Kind Of Blue is my favorite jazz album of all time.

[@axelazaryan]

THANK YOU ABBY 🙏

[@jamesbaldas3479]

Godspeed!

[@samuelsmoak2541]

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.

[@dundee12]

music is music, no need to bring ethnicity into it

[@alanclayton9277]

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!

[@An_Cat_Dubh]

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.

[@samuelsmoak2541]

@@dundee12 as a minority, I disagree with this statement.

[@samuelsmoak2541]

@@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.

[@richardelliott8352]

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.

[@hassovanmanteufel8339]

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

[@johnnyalegreworkplace8065]

This episode is your best yet. ♡

[@VinceWhitacre]

Ok but hear me out... do Crescent next.

[@VinceWhitacre]

You singing "Naima" makes me very happy to be watching this right now.

[@RobtSc]

Great reaction! Many musical terms that are scary (but I hope to understand). More jazz reactions are welcome...along with the rock, psych, etc. RIP Wayne. Pretty sure I met/spoke with him, either at a Pere Ubu show (please react to The Modern Dance) or at the Cynthia Plastercaster docu screening (maybe both--she was really nice).

[@abigaildevoe]

i’m a huge fan of cynthia, was gutted that she passed before i got to meet her. she was the perfect combo of my background in visual art and love of rock-and-roll. i’ve seen the doc, it’s equal parts inspiring, fascinating, and hilarious (and now i own some of her work!)

[@alansmith1989]

I must admit that I knew nothing whatsoever about this album- so thanks to Abby for enlightening me!

[@Stud_Studley]

You still don't know much if this is all you listened to. It's like someone who hasn't eaten for three days asking for food and getting a cracker. Yes, they've eaten but it's just a tiny bit of what they need.

[@alansmith1989]

@@Stud_Studley Someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning!"

[@menot2993]

I bought the last two albums reviewed, Love Supreme and There's a Riot... I cannot recall a time when I have acquired two such brilliant and compelling albums. I think of albums like novels, but I do more music listening than reading.

[@greypossum1]

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.

[@abigaildevoe]

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

[@greypossum1]

@@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. :)

[@newardthelman6871]

Thank you.

[@c11p]

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.

[@You_Do_Have_The_Power_33]

I couldn’t have said it better! AD has the next level research, presentation & enthusiasm, hands down!

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Oh Yes, Talk Talk, top choice. My preference is more their 3 middle albums. But a top suggestion.

[@smaz9]

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.

[@dstarks360]

if you like this, there's so many directions you might go next - Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"; Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Inner Mounting Flame"; Eric Dolphy "Out to Lunch"; McCoy Tyner "The Real McCoy; Bill Evans Trio "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"...so many possibilities...

[@spazzboxer6390]

I sincerely hope she chooses none of them. She should have started with Kenny G - that's about as much as she seem to know,

[@dstarks360]

@@spazzboxer6390 but how do people learn? By doing

[@mordantfilms]

I'm curious to see when you go down the Canterbury rabbit hole and I'm sure you will. Talk about what jazz did to those cats! Sure, it was essentially an underground movement, or in the parlance of the 90's, "alternative". I've always felt that the Canterbury scene was a catalyst for what more mainstream bands of the late 60's ended up trying out by the 70's.

[@mykeadelic]

also john densmore from the doors has cited elvin jones as a huuuuge inspiration, you can 100% hear it in his playing style!

[@andyo3689]

Trane did an album of all vocals with Johnny Hartman. Thanks for diving in here.

[@SixSev75]

Excellent job! Looking forward to more jazz reviews.

[@callmejeffbob]

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 KZbin 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."

[@dennismason3740]

In the nineties I saw Paul Butterfield at an A.A. meeting in Hollywood. The next year I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn at a Hollywood A.A. meeting. Hollywood A.A. meetings tend to be unbearable ego-fests and I regret not telling the musicians that there were better meetings elsewhere.

[@hbron112]

Your music reactions are so entertaining! I lived in San Francisco a block away from the Church of St. John Coltrane when it was on Divisadero Blvd. I attended for the music. I don't know who showed up every week, but they played the best jazz I ever heard live.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

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.

[@leematthews6812]

My addiction to Abigail Devoe means I have no time for heroin or alcohol. 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.

[@CanAlternateLostTape]

You’ve proven through your thorough and insightful discussion of this album that you don’t have to know music theory to understand great music. Just use your ears, your heart, and your mind. All one needs to understand about modal jazz is that it greatly simplified the harmonic language of jazz; rather than elaborating the constantly changing chords and melodies of a popular song or standard, modal jazz reduced the changes as far down as only one chord and one scale. This simplification of means made the music more accessible to rock musicians. The other thing that rock bands likely connected to was the unmatched burning intensity of the classic John Coltrane quartet as heard on A Love Supreme.

[@danplaysbass6294]

You are doing a great job. I am a jazz electric bassist. Not a pro but it's a wonderful hobby. I am a rocker at heart but in music school they did not offer rock, so jazz it was. Very happy to discover jazz, it takes work but it is worth it to be a jazz listener.

[@jamesdowdy2861]

Congrats for coming around to St John

[@dennismason3740]

Real Moment: John says to Miles "man I can't stop playing!" and Miles responded (deep whisper) "take the horn out of your mouth".

[@AnEverydayHouseholdItem]

he would have had to take the horn out of his mouth in order to say "man I can't stop playing!"

[@dennismason3740]

@@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.

[@LouisHansell]

Wow! A departure from the usual playlist, and an excellent choice. Could you get a Charles Mingus in a future episode? Something with "Jump Monk" or "Moanin'" or "Good Bye Pork Pie Hat"? Similar to Coltrane, Mingus had a great wife. The Charles Mingus Band still plays in NYC, and credit goes to Sue Mingus, who recently passed away. That is a story worthy of a VM. You can think of jazz performers grouped by instrument, like 'saxophones', or 'drums' or 'Piano', and debate who among the several were the best. But Mingus is like no other jazz performer/composer.

[@bobhughes2290]

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.)

[@troubadour723]

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.

[@thermionic1234567]

A very good friend of mine toured the new van Gelder studio last year. He even went to The Secret Microphone Room. Perhaps if you behave yourself, a tour could be arranged!

[@abigaildevoe]

how van gelder managed to get that kind of sound out of the rooms he recorded in is kind of a miracle. i can only imagine what this new studio is like (probably a lot easier to record in!)

[@thermionic1234567]

@@abigaildevoeA large part of it was that he used high-quality equipment; kept things very simple; ran the tape fast (30 IPS) and recorded hot, allowing the tape to saturate for only a few milliseconds at high volumes and thus leading to great signal-to-noise ratios. I do the same and don’t mind seeing the red light flicker intermittently. Also, Jazz is fairly easy to record because it tends to be performed live in actual, fairly-intimate spaces in real time (rather than in an imaginary world with lots of overdubs, effects and signal bouncing) making it much easier to replicate in one’s living room. Most recordings from the early days of stereo (from 1953 or so to be kinda precise) used only 2-3 microphones positioned to pick up the live signal as an audience member would hear it. I get a little confused about the equipment used by Mercury and RCA; but think it was the former that used three microphones and a three track deck to record stereo. Both companies had a minimalist recording philosophy and these recordings still set the standard for symphonic recordings. Check out Cowboy Junkies’ “Trinity Sessions.” I remember reading it was two mics and a fast half track deck and excellent treatments for the church’s reflective surfaces. Then check out how lifeless so many Deutsche Grammophon recordings are: lotsa technology, long signal paths and a microphone on virtually every instrument…

[@scottkania594]

Elvin Ray Jones, in Yoshi's Club, Embarcadero West in Oakland. I was there!!! Maybe 1986? You and Elvin Jones... SQUEEZE!!!! OH MY GOD!!!! I'll forget....🙏

[@beready992]

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.

[@groovingonvintagevinyl7840]

Great Video! I like Coltrane , Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Ahmad Jamal, etc. Basically anyone from the hard bop to free jazz era. You should check some of them out.

[@abigaildevoe]

i have a copy of oscar peterson trio plus one clark terry! that's my go-to "i need to catch up on this massive discogs backlog" record haha

[@fanstream]

Super job, Abby, in delineating and opining one of the greatest albums all time -- sacred, eternal, and worthy to be on that gold digital disk still heading cosmic interstellar on one of the 2 Voyagers. Bravo :)

[@abigaildevoe]

NO WAY they sainted trane AND sent a love supreme to space??

[@fanstream]

Unfortunately they kept "Love Supreme" Off the Voyager. "Here Comes the Sun" Almost Got on@@abigaildevoe

[@kc0lif]

just say welcome thank you. i know about short clips.

[@abigaildevoe]

that intro is for the new people, of which you once were

[@guillermomiyares5549]

Thanks for reviewing a true work of art

[@elchananyanovsky4230]

Thanks, Abby! Love it!

[@jamesireland1584]

My dad (gone more than 10 years now) was a jazz guy, who came of age in the 50s. He loved all the jazz pop and the more arty albums from that period, but starting in the 60s, with people like Mingus, Coltrane and even Miles, he explained that this new jazz was more for musicians than for listeners like himself. IDK if that's a fair assessment, but I kind of wish he were here so he could see (hear) what you said in this review. Also, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has some of the best written (semi-fictional) eye-witness experiences of live jazz ever written. I know that this book is 20 years earlier than ALS, but it's my understanding that JC's (note his initials!) career goes back that far. I wonder if that's how Doctor Sax came into being?

[@gevowavemagnet]

I listened to this again tonight. Was reminded how much of a technical genius Rudy Van Gelder was.

[@dennismason3740]

I picked up the R'n'R' religion in 1956 when I heard Heartbreak Hotel on the radio. I was 3. It is quite a flexible religion and the common thread is "music". I have a r'n'r' parable for every occasion. My Favorite Things is quite nice. It goes with "do-re-mi". It's all connected!

[@richardbaker2613]

Dear Abby, I love you channel! You cover my favorite records. I, too, have a lot of records and am shamed by my bricks and board storage solution. Where can I get a shelf like yours?

[@Dollierocker]

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 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@AnEverydayHouseholdItem]

Yee. Mega Simp there.

[@madeofcheese9152]

@@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

[@Dollierocker]

@@AnEverydayHouseholdItemI’m sorry no one loves you

[@Austin-31557]

Since you have done Coltrane, I would love to see your review of “Bitches Brew”

[@kmremy1992]

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.

[@timothyfoley3000]

I'm an atheist, but I love this album.

[@nvm9040]

I skip this vinyl monday when i first discovered this channel after watching the Yellow Submarine video Now I'm going back through the "back catalog" to see the previous work leading up to now

[@nathanielvalla6142]

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.

[@yeeshkul7311]

I know someone’s gonna request Ornette Coleman on every single post like the Zappa guy once did

[@abigaildevoe]

i miss zappa guy :( the mascot of the comments section! i hope he’s well

[@yeeshkul7311]

@@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