A Love Supreme

Ashley Kahn is the author of critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece; the primary editor of Rolling Stone: The Seventies, and a primary contributor to The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. His freelance features on music and culture have appeared in the New York Times, TV Guide, MOJO, Newsday, The New York Observer, New Statesman (UK), Jazz (France), GQ (Japan), Down Beat, Jazz Times and many other publications. He was music editor at VH1, and has also been a concert producer and tour manager, working with a wide variety of artists from Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and Britney Spears, to Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cassandra Wilson and Debby Harry and the Jazz Passengers.

A Love SupremeAcknowledgments
Foreword


"Always a Spiritual Experience"


Introduction
"The First Time I Have Everything Ready


Chapter 1
Miles Ahead, Miles Behind


Chapter 2
The Classic Quartet
Impulse: Creed's Vision


Chapter 3
December 9, 1964: Creating A Love Supreme
Rudy Van Gelder


Chapter 4
December 10, 1964: A Second Try, a Year of Triumph
Poetry and Prayer
Suite by the Sea


Chapter 5
Avant-garde, a Force for Good


Chapter 6
The Unbroken Arc of A Love Supreme
Persistence of a Label


Epilogue
"Opening the Doors"


Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index