Maggie Talks With Music Historian Ashley Khan About John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle (Newly Released)
Maggie LePique and Ashley Khan discuss this newly discovered live-recording of a performance of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme suite which has been called a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history. While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. This version is also of the full suite and features an expanded band that includes the same Classic Quartet and Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig as part of Coltrane's group.
Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning American music historian, journalist, producer, and professor. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music, and has written books on two legendary recordings—Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane—as well as one book on a legendary record label: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. He also co-authored the Carlos Santana autobiography The Universal Tone, and edited Rolling Stone: The Seventies, a 70-essay overview of that pivotal decade. His latest book is George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters.
Source: https://www.johncoltrane.com
Source: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/10/07/coltranes-new-love-supreme/
Source: https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/ashley-kahn-meet-the-professor/
This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast.
Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.