Great article, agree on all points. Great to celebrate this album. Recently I find I (semi-ritually perhaps) put this on when traveling when I arrive in a new lodging. Something about a full Love Supreme listen through connects my better parts to the new place and the goals at hand. And make no mistake : this is serious devotional music,…
Great article, agree on all points. Great to celebrate this album. Recently I find I (semi-ritually perhaps) put this on when traveling when I arrive in a new lodging. Something about a full Love Supreme listen through connects my better parts to the new place and the goals at hand. And make no mistake : this is serious devotional music, the quintessence of what religion came from and is supposed to be based on. I have noticed that secularized jazz writers or biographers often downplay or warp the truly overt theistic and religious timbre of this entire album due to their own issues -- I am very happy that Ted has leaned into what seems to me the true spirit of Trane's vision, message and experience. A very rich realm from this point of view.
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the term Collective Effervescence, but I feel that it would do musicians and artists (and of course beyond just them) well to familiarize themselves with what may be the emergent origin point of spiritual practice and perhaps, to an extent, transcendent experience. It reads as what you’re describing. I don’t think it’s a mere coincidence that devotion tends to be so commonly tied to musical performance, despite having been abstracted or alienated from each other within broader social purview over time. I think Coltrane’s music is a reminder of this being the case, as long as it’s being regarded with complete context.
Great article, agree on all points. Great to celebrate this album. Recently I find I (semi-ritually perhaps) put this on when traveling when I arrive in a new lodging. Something about a full Love Supreme listen through connects my better parts to the new place and the goals at hand. And make no mistake : this is serious devotional music, the quintessence of what religion came from and is supposed to be based on. I have noticed that secularized jazz writers or biographers often downplay or warp the truly overt theistic and religious timbre of this entire album due to their own issues -- I am very happy that Ted has leaned into what seems to me the true spirit of Trane's vision, message and experience. A very rich realm from this point of view.
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the term Collective Effervescence, but I feel that it would do musicians and artists (and of course beyond just them) well to familiarize themselves with what may be the emergent origin point of spiritual practice and perhaps, to an extent, transcendent experience. It reads as what you’re describing. I don’t think it’s a mere coincidence that devotion tends to be so commonly tied to musical performance, despite having been abstracted or alienated from each other within broader social purview over time. I think Coltrane’s music is a reminder of this being the case, as long as it’s being regarded with complete context.