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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

1959

Columbia refused to let him record the words to Fables of Faubus, an attack on a segregationist governor, so it appears as an instrumental.

★ 7.6

1965

Shorter wrote these while working in Miles Davis's band and said he was thinking about folk tales and misty landscapes with witches.

★ 6.4