Impulse! Records
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A Love Supreme
RecommendedElvin Jones (drums), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), McCoy Tyner (piano), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)
Within jazz itself, the album ensured that the music could no longer be considered a social or cultural also-ran, the spiritual and humanistic concerns that made up its inspiration demanding... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 9th Awards (1966), Nominee:Best Original Jazz Composition
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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For me, this is one of her most enthralling performances, with fine support from an all-star band, including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Ed Blackwell. — More…
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, April 2024
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2024
2 CDs
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Coming out of the universal consciousness of mentor John Coltrane and borrowing some of the celestial majesty of his widow Alice, Sanders gets modal-hymnal on the enduring ‘The Creator Has A... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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The set as a whole suggests that Shabaka hasn’t dialled down his intensity – instead, he’s rechannelled it into something more profound. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Jazz Choice
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This has to be pick of-the-month for historical interest alone, but for those of us who admire the passion and abandonment of late-period Coltrane this is a gift. Hardly a comfortable ‘listen’,... — More…
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Pitchfork, Best New Music, Best New Reissue
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Jazz Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021, Reissues/Archive
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, October 2021
CD
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This is a major statement from artists who are much the new wave of jazz as John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp et al were in their day. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Stereogum, Best Jazz Albums of 2023
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The Wire, Releases of the Year 2023
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There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but this one takes the biscuit. — More…
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, August 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2023
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Presto Best Jazz Reissue/Archive, Finalist 2023
CD
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Whether you come from Ellington or from Coltrane or from blues-bands, there’s stuff from this almost continuous suite to captivate you. Even techno fans – no sampling as such – will find early... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Ascension (Editions I And II)
RecommendedJohn Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone), Elvin Jones (drums), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), Art Davis (upright bass)
Still an unruly, flawed, controversial, and deeply divisive album 40 years after its initial release, Ascension set the pace and the tone of the avant-garde music debate right through the back... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Alice injects her own idiosyncratic styles into the sound, however, expanding on her past spiritual work with her own flair. — More…
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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