A Love Supreme

A Love Supreme Artist: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra , and Wynton Marsalis
Label: Palmetto Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 753957210625
EAN: 0753957210625
ASIN: B0006L0LB6


Release Date: 2005-01-11

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Listmania:

  1. jazz tribute albums and re-creations
  2. Remakes of entire (or almost entire) albums

Tracks:

  1. Acknowledgement
  2. Resolution
  3. Pursuance
  4. Psalm

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars It's simple really..........2006-01-26

LCJO does to A Love Supreme what the Disneyland Dixieland band does for Muskrat Ramble.

4 out of 5 stars Big band version of Coltrane classic.......2006-01-23

If you are a jazz aficionado, then you probably should avoid this CD. Nothing can compete with the 1964 classic Coltrane original recording. However, this big band orchestration is very approachable for non experts. Everything is very professional and the musicians are quite frankly astoundingly good, particularly the young rhythm section. I heard them live in Ann Arbor last night at a packed Hill Auditorium and the audience seemed extremely satisfied with the product. If you're a purist, stay away; otherwise you may be very happy indeed.

3 out of 5 stars Take five, please.......2005-12-31

The upshot is that this orchestration, while nice enough, doesn't do anything good to the original piece (and I heard it live as well). If you're a fan of the original, I suggest you buy the digitally remastered version of ALS which includes a live version on the second CD.

Unless you're a fan of orchestration from quartet to big band (and this is done far more frequently in the classical world), or have money to burn, I'd avoid this CD.

5 out of 5 stars not the same as the original; but enjoyable never the less.......2005-11-21

I suppose it's natural to compare this release with the original classic (which, by the way, you should listen to first).

The word that hits me when listening to this release is "technical". It sounds like there must be 100 horns where the original was, what, 1? Some parts seem overly cute... but it's not like it's some insult to the original. One thing I can't stand is when an artist remakes a piece of music (even their own) and it sounds the SAME. In those cases, the duplicate is implying that they are better. This version is different. It has a big band sound.

Like all of the Wynton Marsalis projects, the audio quality in this release is unmatched.

So, I'd recommend this release as a supplement. Don't think of it as the new kids trying to "one up" Trane and I think you can enjoy it better.

1 out of 5 stars Coltrane desacrated.......2005-11-05

John Coltrane was villified most of his creative life for playing at the edge of a world he was helping to redefine. Wynton and the LCJO are in effect the death of creative musicians like Coltrane, or most of the truly creative Jazz scene for that matter. Wynton is establishing himself as "the face of Jazz". A market oriented phenomenon which freezes some of the elements making Jazz without ever capturing the true essence of the music. By telling us (and make no mistake, these guys do...): "this is what Jazz is" and trying to re-appropriate themselves the music of Jazz giants such as John Coltrane who, if he were alive, would not be given the time of day by these folks, Wynton and his posses are raping what is true and beautiful in this music.
The recording, since I must talk about it, features a set of crafty yet discomboluted arrangements merely mimicking what Coltrane was, mostly empty of content, setting in motions soloists who sound more like "Jazz puppets" than anything remotely close to what Coltrane was striving for (notable exception: Ted Nash !).
You do NOT need this record. Wynton and the LCJO does NOT need your money; spend it on musicians who put their life and their art on the edge, the way Coltrane did.

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