''Variations on A Love Supreme'' is a

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composed by

Fabrizio Cassol Fabrizio Cassol (born 8 June 1964) is a Belgian saxophonist and the first user of the aulochrome (a double-reed instrument). He was born in Ougrée, Belgium. Between 1982 and 1985, he studied at the Liège conservatory and "obtained first priz ...

and

Kris Defoort Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born on 30 November 1959 in Bruges. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort (saxophonist and composer). He entered in 1978 the Antwerp ...

. It contains variations on ''

A Love Supreme ''A Love Supreme'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. He recorded it in one session on December 9, 1964, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, leading a quartet featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Ga ...

'', the classic jazz album by the

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. It was released in 1995 on the

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label, and is representative of the Belgian jazz scene. Variations on A Love Supreme is also the name of the

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(led by Kris Defoort and Fabrizio Cassol) performing those compositions, for example at

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in 1999. Some musicians were replaced for some concerts; for example, Michel Massot by

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, and George Alexander Van Dam by Dominique Pifarely or Gunda Gottschalk.

Track listing

Part one

# "The Seed" —

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by Kris Defoort and Fabrizio Cassol # "Variation 1" — F. Cassol # "Variation 2: Pursuance" — John Coltrane,

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by F. Cassol # "Variation 3" — F. Cassol

Part two

# "Variation 4" — F. Cassol # "Variation 5" — K. Defoort # "Variation 6: Resolution" — John Coltrane, arrangement by K. Defoort

Part three

# "Variation 7" — K. Defoort # "Variation 8" — K. Defoort

Personnel

* Fabrizio Cassol — alto

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* Kris Defoort —

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Jeroen Van Herzeele Jeroen Van Herzeele (born September 13, 1965) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist. He was born in Zottegem. He plays in various bands such as Greetings From Mercury, Maak's Spirit, Octurn, Tomas and Co, Ivan Paduart etc... He won the Belgian Gol ...

— tenor and soprano saxophone * Pierre Bernard —

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* Antoine Prawerman —

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

* Jan Kuijken —

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* Laurent Blondiau —

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* George Alexander Van Dam —

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

Michel Massot Michel Massot (born 25 October 1960, in Halle) is a Belgian tuba and trombone jazz musician. He studied at ''Conservatoire de Liège''. He founded Trio Bravo with saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol and drummer Michel Debrulle in the middle of the ...

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Stéphane Galland Stéphane Galland (born 27 October 1969) is a Belgian jazz drummer and composer. In 2018, the international jazz project called SHIJIN (with Stéphane Galland, saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart, pianist Malcolm Braff, and bassist Laurent David) ...

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Michel Hatzigeorgiou Michel Hatzigeorgiou (born 1961) is a Belgian bass guitarist. He was born in Belgium from Greek parents. He started playing bouzouki at the age of 9, then switched to electric guitar at 11 and finally to electric bass at 14. He could have or shou ...

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