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A Love Supreme is a suite about redemption, a work of pure spirit and song, that encapsulates all the struggles and aspirations of the 1960s. From the urgent speech-like timbre of his tenor, to the serpentine textures and earthy groove of Elvin Jones's drumming, Coltrane's suite proceeds with escalating intensity, conveying a hard-fought wisdom and a beckoning serenity in the prayer-like drones of Psalm, where Jones rolls and rumbles like thunder as Garrison and Tyner toll away suggestively-- all the while Coltrane searches for that one climactic note worthy of the love he wants to share.