1965’s masterpiece A Love Supreme by jazz icon John Coltrane and his quartet (Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner) will get a special 50th anniversary release this November 6th as Verve Music Group is set to put out A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters. The collection will include an alternate cut to the album’s opening suite that Coltrane and company recorded a day after finishing the record, overdubs, some studio chatter and is said to provide the most comprehensive look at the album’s formulation, from it’s conception as a nine-piece performance to how it was widdled away and reconstructed for the quartet in the studio.
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The master tapes will be available in two formats: a two-disc set that includes A Love Supreme, unreleased mono “references” of two tracks, owned by Coltrane himself, and seven unreleased performances from the two Supreme sessions, as well as a three-disc “Super-Deluxe Edition” that includes the only live recording of the album from an impromptu performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes in July 1965.
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The three-disc set will come in a larger format that includes additional information about the live material and a personal introduction by Carlos Santana. And for those of you who enjoy some background information when you’re listening to your records, the Complete Masters will include a 32-page booklet featuring an essay by Ashley Kahn, noted producer, instructor and author of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album, rare photographs from the sessions and all of Coltrane’s surviving musical sketches and written elements from the album.