Sean Khan - Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane
If you are new to Sean Khan this album is a wonderful reintroduction. Not many artists can take the work of a genius and make it their own and really uplift the music. I believe Sean has done just that to John Coltrane’s work on Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane. A pioneer musician that I first became familiar with during the broken beat movement. Sean has worked with Bugz in the Attic, 4hero, Omar among others. Khan enlisted the input of two old friends, Kaidi Tatham and Daz-I-Kue who also contributed to the project. Also featured on the album are UK jazz legends Peter King (saxophone) and Jim Mullen (guitar). Sadly, Peter King’s contribution to “Supreme Love” would be his last recording session, and he passed away in August 2020. Another important addition to the project is Heidi Vogel who adds her distinctive, soulful voice to Coltrane and Khan’s lyrics.
“I have always been a strange prisoner to my ambition” says Sedan “and most of my recordings bear testimony to this, with record being the next part of that evolution. I made a conscious effort to represent all of Coltrane’s main artistic periods from hard bop (with Miles Davis), to sheets of sound (Giant Steps, Moments Notice), spiritual jazz (Love Supreme) and finally his last, most experimental and cosmic period (Intersteller Space). I have never heard a record that attempts to reflect all of the great man’s epochs in this way and use the recording artist’s autobiography (my own) as a conduit to these ends, and so here I am, for better or for worse.”
I can’t say enough good things about this album. A wonderful tribute to Coltrane that has and will continue to receive heavy rotation for years to come.