Talk:A Love Supreme

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When I read the article I was surprised it did not mention the important structural features of A Love Supreme. The first paragraph talks briefly about the relationship between Coltrane's poem and his solo on "Psalm", but this relationship was the subject of a lot of important research, and I think it deserves more attention. Many scholars have also analyzed the motivic connections between the movements of the suite, but the article says nothing about it.

I would love to discuss how this information might be incorporated into the article. For a good review of what I'm talking about, check out

Porter, Lewis. 1985. “John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Jazz Improvisation as Composition.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 38:593–621.

Willow1729 09:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Channel 4?

Mentioning this survey held by channel 4 is quite irrelevant because the focus of this list does not rest on jazz music, but mostly on pop and rock. And the people who made it do not appear to have enough musical knowledge to listen and to include any of coltrane's albums in that survey.

Elitism aside, I do agree that the mention of the survey is a little high amongst the other recognitions, particularly when it only got eighty-something. Still, I would only move the mention below, as it's still a mass-media recognition and that says something (perhaps) about Coltrane's position in popular culture today. Perseguidor 12:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)