Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile recognized as a great artist in his time, much of John Coltrane’s later work was so far ahead that it took the world years, if not decades, to catch up with it.Today, in a beautiful postscript to a brilliant and all-too-short life and career, Coltrane’s masterpiece, 1965’s “A Love Supreme,” has been certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of 1 million albums in the U.S.
The achievement garners Coltrane, who died of cancer in 1967, his first-ever platinum record and is the first jazz album of the 1960s to receive platinum status.Following weeks of writing and arranging, the album was recorded in one session on December 9, 1964 at the legendary Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with.
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