'A Love Supreme' is certified platinum 56 years after its release
John Coltrane's pivotal record has officially gone platinum
Last updated 11th Nov 2021
John Coltrane's iconic album A Love Supreme has turned platinum, 56 years after the record's release - marking over 1,000,000 sales in the United States.
Not only is this the first of John Coltrane's albums to be marked platinum, but it is also amazingly the first jazz record of the 1960s to turn platinum.
Released in 1965 by Impulse! Records, A Love Supreme was composed and created by Coltrane as a public declaration of his personal spiritual beliefs and universalist sentiment. The album was recorded in the famous Van Gelder Studio, A Love Supreme is widely believed to be Coltrane's finest work.
To celebrate the occasion, Impulse! Records and Universal released a digital-only collection titled A Love Supreme: The Platinum Collection, in celebration of Coltrane’s milestone. The collection includes all commercially released versions of the LP: the original album, a live 1965 recording from Antibes, France, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, and outtakes and alternative takes from A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters.
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, which was recorded in October of 1965, was released on 22nd of October and features Pharoah Sanders alongside Coltrane on saxophone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Jimmy Garrison and Donald (Rafael) Garrett on basses. Carlos Ward, then a young saxophonist just getting started on the scene, sat in as well