A Love Supreme September 14 2026 Part 1

This week, we travel through work, memory, faith, struggle and renewal.Cannonball Adderley begins with the enduring pulse of “Work Song,” followed by Jim Harrison’s poetry and J.D. Allen’s stark “This World Is a Mean World.” Two interpretations of “Hi-Fly”—from Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, and the incomparable Abbey Lincoln—lift us toward Dominique Fils-Aimé’s “Phoenix Rising” and Courtney Pine’s garden of possibility.At the spiritual center are Joel Ross’s “Trinity,” Joe Lovano’s “Congregation” and Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s powerful interpretation of “Acknowledgement.” Along the way, we encounter monsters and memory, mothers and sacred names, and the endlessly inventive music of Thelonious Monk.The final hour turns toward the American songbook in its broadest sense, with music associated with Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Webb and Neil Young—then moves into autonomy, power and time before settling into the quiet beauty of Bill Evans.Featuring John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, Anat Cohen, Kenny Wheeler, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Adam O’Farrill, Ezra Collective, Cassandra Wilson, Somi, Brandee Younger, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kamasi Washington and many more.