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With a new introduction for the 55th anniversary of the album's release, this is Ashley Kahn's seminal work on John Coltrane's masterpiece A Love Supreme

About the Author

Ashley Kahn is the author Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme: The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album, both published by Granta Books. He is a contributor to Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Mojo. He lives in New Jersey.

Reviews

We get the man, the mission, the methodology ... a well-researched, transparently written, passionately felt book
*Independent*

One of the most accessible slices of jazz history you'll find...mixes biography, a forensic study of the recording process and an examination of the album's racial, political and spiritual legacy...a fine journalistic narrative
*Time Out*

Kahn provides a historical and critical overview of Coltrane's life and work and has also carried out an impressive quantity of research. [It] is an enjoyable read, with great photographs. Coltrane's followers will have to get it
*Guardian*

Thoroughly absorbing
*The Times*

Ashley Kahn deftly unpicks the background, describing the context and making of what was to become the signature modern jazz album
*Financial Times*

Kahn's book puts you there in the studio, next to Elvin's kit
*Mojo*