John Coltrane
"The Making of A Love Supreme"
hosted by Mos Def
Fall 2002
Newark, NJ @ WBGO-88.3 FM  

http://www.johncoltrane.com
http://www.wbgo.org

Disc 1 - 59.00 (documentary: interviews and music)
Disc 2 - 59.00 (documentary: interviews and music)

elation
elegance
exaltation

This recording is taken directly from the two master CDs sent to public radio stations
around the country for limited broadcast  between Nov 1, 2002 and Oct 31, 2003.

CREDITS
The Making of A Love Supreme is a production of WBGO-FM and Joyride Media
Producers: Josh Jackson and Paul Chuffo
Editor: Tara Geer
Consulting Producer: Ashley Kahn
Executive Producer: Thurston Briscoe
Special thanks to Cephas Bowles

The producers thank:
WBGO staff
Goodtree Media -- Abi, Fatima, Kaseem, Mos' Def and Umi 
Nate Herr, Garrett Shelton and the Verve Music Group 
David Grant and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Kathy Gronau and Creative PR
Janet Rodriguez and JP Morgan Chase
Diane Wanek, Zigzag Graphic Design
Paul Slovak and Viking Books
Carlos Ascencio and Leo Del Aguila at NPR

Sylvia Brewer and Spencer Graves for the rap connection
Thanks to Gary Walker for the tip
Thanks to Dorthaan Kirk for the save
Chuck Stewart for the Coltrane images
Christine Jackson for the patience
John Coltrane for the inspiration

Excerpt for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Eulogy for the Martyred Children" speech used by
permission from The King Center and Time Warner Audio Books.

Viking Books has published Ashley Kahn's "A Love Supreme - The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album."  Verve Music Group has released a Deluxe Edition of 'A Love Supreme,' featuring the quartet's only live performance of the suite, as well as rare, sextet performances of "Acknowledgement."

Transcripts of the broadcast:
http://www.wbgo.org/downloads/ALS_HOUR_1.pdf#search='making%20love%20supreme'
http://www.wbgo.org/downloads/ALS_HOUR_2.pdf#search='making%20love%20supreme'


A LOVE SUPREME
(John's handwritten 'psalm' included 
as the liner notes to 'A Love Supreme')

I will do all I can to be worthy 
of Thee O' Lord.
It ALL has to do with it.
Thank you God.
Peace.
There is none other.
God is. It is so Beautiful.
Thank you God.  God IS ALL.
Help us to resolve our fears and
weaknesses.
In you ALL things are possible.
Thank you God.
We know.  God made us so.
Keep Your eye on God.
God is.  He always was.  He always
will be.
No matter what...... it is God.
He is gracious & merciful.
It is MOST important that I KNOW Thee.

Words - Sounds - Speech - men memory
Thoughts - Fears - Emotions & Time, all
Related - ALL made from one  ALL made 
in one.
Blessed Be His Name.
Thought waves - Heat waves - ALL
Vibrations - ALL Paths Lead to God.
His way -- it is Lovely - it is Gracious
It is merciful.
Thank you God.
One thought can produce millions of
vibrations and they ALL go back to
God - Everything Does -
Thank you God.
Have No Fear - Believe.
The universe has many wonders - and
God is ALL.
Thoughts - Deeds - vibrations, etc.
They all Go Back to God and He Cleanses
ALL.
He is Gracious and merciful.
Glory to God. God is so alive - God is.

God Loves
may I Be Acceptable in Thy sight
we are all one in his Grace

The fact that we are is
Acknowledgement of Thee O LORD
T.Y.L.

God will wash away all our
tears - He always Has - He always
Will
Seek him everyday.  in all ways
Seek God everyday.
Let us sing all songs to God
To whom all Praise is due. Praise
God

No Road is An Easy One But They
ALL Go To God.
With ALL we Share God.
It is ALL with God.
It is ALL with Thee.
obey The Lord.
Blessed is He.
We Are ALL From One - The will of God.
I have seen God.  I have seen UnGodly -
None is Greater Nor can Even Compare
To - God.
Thank you God.
He will Remake us --- He always Has -
And He always will.
Thank you God.
God breathes through us so completely,
So Gently we Hardly Feel it - yet it
IS our Everything.
Thank you God.
Elation  Elegance  Exaltation
ALL From God
Thank you God
Amen

(Bless you, John.  You've blessed ALL.)