"A Love Supreme" — John Coltrane
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Some call it the greatest album of the 20th century. Others say it isn't even Coltrane's best album ... of 1965.
No matter where you think it sits in the jazz music canon, Coltrane's love letter to God is a masterpiece. We break it down track-by-track, chord-by-chord to uncover what makes this album such a rewarding listen from front to back.
This week marks 99 years since Coltrane's birth. In his honor, we look back at this episode from 2024, where we listen deeply to what just may be Coltrane's magnum opus.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up there, dear listener, Adam here. |
| 0:02.4 | We are very close to the great John Coltrane's birthday. |
| 0:06.1 | It's coming up. |
| 0:06.7 | It's just a few days away. |
| 0:07.9 | And in honor of that, we wanted to replay one of our favorite episodes of the last few years. |
| 0:12.9 | This is our episode on his masterpiece, A Love Supreme. |
| 0:17.9 | And this was one of my favorite memories ever recording. |
| 0:22.3 | You'll hear it. Peter and I had such a blast listening to this album and talking about it. And what's fun for me is you can hear Peter |
| 0:28.1 | not change his mind, but he wasn't totally enamored with the Love Supreme going into this. Of course, |
| 0:34.4 | he liked it, but it wasn't his favorite Coltrane album of this era. He's a crescent head through and through. But you could hear |
| 0:40.8 | over the course of listening to the music that he is just captured |
| 0:45.2 | by it in a way that's really fun to listen to. And I hope that you |
| 0:49.9 | hear that too, because I just had a ball listening to A Love Supreme with Peter. We'll be back next week |
| 0:54.9 | with a brand new album, but enjoy A Love Supreme. Hey, Peter. Yes. Today we're listening to an album |
| 1:01.3 | that some people think is one of the great works of art of the 20th century. Other people think |
| 1:06.1 | isn't even the greatest work of art for this artist in this year. |
| 1:11.2 | Whoa. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | We, of course, are listening to John Coltrane's, in my opinion, masterpiece, a love surprise. |
| 1:43.4 | Hmm. I'm out of Manus. |
| 2:05.8 | And I'm at a manis. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to The You'll Hear at Podcast. And this is a very special day for us. It really is a very special day. We love to listen to the greatest albums of all time here at the You'll Hear at podcast. If you want to go on a deeper dive of anything we're talking about here, you can always go to open studio, jazz.com and check that out. Peter, it's Love Supreme Day. We've been toying with this, flirting with this album for years. You've never really covered it. And I'm stoked because this is one of my all-time |
| 2:10.9 | favorite records. Peter, full disclosure for me, and I know you kind of know this already, |
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