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4 records

A Love Supreme

1964

Coltrane recorded it in one December session and meant it as a prayer. On the last movement he plays a psalm he had written out.

★ 9.0

1970

Davis gave the players almost no written music, and his producer Teo Macero cut the tapes together afterward with a razor blade.

★ 8.9

1959

Coleman played a white plastic saxophone because it was what he could afford, and half the musicians in New York thought he was a fraud.

★ 7.4

1964

There is no piano on it, just Bobby Hutcherson's vibraphone holding the harmony loosely enough that the tunes never quite settle.

★ 6.4