John Coltrane. A Love Supreme, Part 1_ Acknowledgement (1965).

“Part 1: Acknowledgement“ was the first track on “A Love Supreme“, a jazz studio album recorded by John Coltrane’s classic quartet in December 1964 and released by Impulse! Records in February 1965. It is generally considered to be among Coltrane’s greatest works, as it melded the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted later. The quartet recorded the album in one session on December 9, 1964, at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The album is a four-part suite, broken up into tracks: “Acknowledgement“ (which contains the mantra that gave the suite its name), “Resolution“, “Pursuance“, and “Psalm“. It is intended to be a spiritual album, broadly representative of a personal struggle for purity, and expresses Coltrane’s deep gratitude as he admits to his talent and instrument as being owned not by him but by a spiritual higher power. The track begins the album with the bang of a gong, or tam-tam, followed by cymbal washes. Jimmy Garrison follows on bass