Live in Antibes, 1965 [Import, Live]

John Coltrane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Charly UK
• ASIN: B000000JK6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,306 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Love Supreme: Part 1-Acknowledgement/Part 2-Resolution/Part 3-Pursuance/Part 4-Psalm

2. Impressions

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered reissue of concert performancefeaturing a 48 minute long version of his epic 'A LoveSupreme' & a 22 minute rendition of 'Impressions'. Twotracks total. 1996 Charly release.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Supreme, December 13, 2001

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maurizio Garbolino (Cirie', (To) Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live in Antibes, 1965 (Audio CD)

This is the only live version of 'A Love Supreme' and is really worth having it since everything played by Trane in Juan les Pins and Paris that summer is first class Trane.

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent, May 4, 2005

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H. Lim (Carlingford, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live in Antibes, 1965 (Audio CD)

I got a really old scratchy CD of this concert, but the sound blows me away. Coltrane's one and only live version of A Love Supreme (actually he performed parts of it live later, but these are lost to history) is truly a revelation. It is much less meditative than the studio version, with a hard edged sound that is typical of Coltrane's live performances.

Acknowledgement: Unfortunately this track, the most famous, is also the least inspired. Coltrane seems almost weary during his solos, and the repeated Love Supreme motif in several keys seems forced and sloppy this time. There is no chanting. The tune simply breaks off strangely.

Resolution: This movement, representing Coltrane's resolution to give up drugs and follow the "esteemed path" is a brutal, agonising channeling of pain. Coltrane at one stage makes a noise I have never heard on a sax before - a kind of puffing asthmatic sound that is rather disturbing. The general atmosphere is one of pain and anguish, which is very suitable for the movement.

Pursuance: This movement, representing Coltrane's pursuance of the "love supreme", is even more far out than the previous movement. The performance of "Pursuance" here is widely regarded as a masterpiece of improvisation, and I can't argue with that. Trane had taken a big step towards the avant-garde by this time, and you can hear it.

Psalm: If anything this is even farther out than "Pursuance", because there is no beat. Trane almost totally ignores the words to his poem, and after about two bars from the original version he goes way, way out. He does a call and response series, in which he barks out a motif in an avant garde screech, then answers it with a melodious and reflective motif.


Impressions: A ten minute bass solo precedes an ear-stretching series of solos by Trane that almost totally obliterate the original melody. When the head of the tune reappears at the end, it is almost unrecogniseable amongst the squeaks and hoots.

The version I have also includes Naima. This is my favorite version of this Coltrane standard; Coltrane's 1965 sound stretches the boundaries of the old Quartet sound, so that the usually reflective, peaceful tune suddenly vanishes in a welter of emotive screaming - before miraculously returning at the end, unscathed. This is truly a remarkable performance.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For Diehard Coltrane Fans Only, I Think, August 13, 2003

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J H Murphy "Hank Murphy" (Agoura, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live in Antibes, 1965 (Audio CD)

I think you have to be a really serious fan of Coltrane to enjoy this album. Without hearing another version of Love Supreme before listening to this one, I don't think you can appreciate the longer version. I would not want this to be one's first exposure to John Coltrane - older and less unconventional pieces like Equinox, My Favorite Things, and others might be a better place to start. I am only a casual Coltrane fan, and I was put off by both tracks.

This performance has been issued under several labels, one which added Naima as a bonus track.