5 Facts About Where Coltrane Composed A Love Supreme
- Coltrane composed A Love Supreme in the upstairs room of his home in Dix Hills, New York.
- His wife Alice recalled him emerging from that room “like Moses from the mountain.”
- The room was a dedicated creative space, separate from the rest of the house.
- Coltrane worked on the suite there in 1964, during a period of intense spiritual and musical focus.
- The Dix Hills home was where he lived with his family at the time of the composition.