On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...

The 33-minute album consisted of four parts: "Acknowledgement," "Resolution," "Pursuance," and "Psalm." Love Supreme, the critically acclaimed album by John Coltrane, debuted on Dec. 9, 1964. To ...

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John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ is set to be reissued as a cassette on March 27 as part of its 60th anniversary.

To celebrate a seminal composition and performance — one we might need now more than ever — we ask dozens of sax players what Coltrane’s masterpiece means to them. They say Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Jazz musician John Coltrane plays in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner ...

"A Love Supreme" was a dramatic departure from what he had done before and amazing, but every record, they were all just huge leaps forward. By the time I was actually playing with my jazz heroes, he ...