John Coltrane ‎– A Love Supreme

Looking for a copy if anyone has one they'd be willing to sell.

Disc with unevenness: small punctiform areas with pressed appearance. Bar code: 0 11105 0155 1 6

No need for this issue: you can get everything on CDs.

This is a review of a specific reissue and will not discuss the music much. A lot has already been written about this record and I'm not sure I can add much to that discussion. It's great and you should own a copy.

One of the great things about Coltrane's A Love Supreme is that it is widely available on inexpensive and decent sounding vinyl reissues. I would count this version as one of those. The vinyl is flat and without any visual flaws, marks, etc. The sound is good... It is not going to beat the 45 rpm double version taken from the original tapes but for the price, you will get a solid, quality reissue. I have noticed some noise in the right channel on side A but it very faint and one needs to be listening very closely to hear it. Really... not bad. It plays without pops, clicks or other distortions. I was happy not to see the United U stamped in the dead wax when I opened mine as they have been reported to have lots of quality control issues with their pressings.
The drums sound great here and Elvin Jones really brings it, like he always does. The instrumentation is clear and full sounding. While I have heard bad things about some of the Impulse! reissues dating all the way back to the 70's I don't own another copy so I cannot compare. This Stereo mix sounds solid to these ears.
The packaging is excellent. You get the 1995 reproduction sleeve with the original notes and poem as well as new (95) notes from Michael Cuscuna that give a little context to the release. The cover is nicely reproduced here with crisp photography and graphics on a sturdy gatefold sleeve.
If you don't own A Love Supreme, this is a good sounding (not fantastic) version of it. There are superior versions out there if you are willing to pay for them but to the general populous of record listeners, this is a great value certainly a solid version to own while you dig through crates looking for that first pressing.

This is one of the best albums of Coltrane, has great sound quality, however my copy also has a distinct medium high pitch sound in it. As if during the cutting the disc something was touching the platter. It sounds like when a cymbal is being wiped with a drum mallet (stick with big tip), which I'm sure is not in the original piece. It is very obvious in the run on and run out of the lp and during the silent parts, in e.g. Pursuance/Psalm. Too bad! I had the LP replaced, but the second one also had it. It's on both sides of the disc.

any word about pressing and sound quality of that reissue? is it pressed in EU or US?

Beautiful edition of this seminal album. Probably the most aesthetically pleasing album I own, and it sounds truly phenomenal.

After a careful listening, you notice there is a sort of hum on the left channel. It is a known problem to all mastering of this album prior 2003. This problem was resolved with the remastering of this issue: https://www.discogs.com/John-Coltrane-A-Love-Supreme/release/516094. The question now remains : why did they sill used source with existing hum???? I regret buying this LP.

The one that i got today was also perfectly flat and centered. The center whole was good sized by my opinion, i have a several good records in my collection that have lot narrower center whole than this one

i think this is (one of) the 2009 reissues, different from the back to black version.