Part III - Pursuance / Part IV - Psalm (track)
by John Coltrane
Year: 1965
From the album A Love Supreme (track #3)
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Part III - Pursuance / Part IV - Psalm appears on the following album(s) by John Coltrane:
- A Love Supreme (track #3) (this album) (1965)

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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/10/2025 09:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 45,222 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2025 16:34 | 7,676 | 91/100 | |
| ! | 11/20/2025 03:41 | plasmicmist | 7,423 | 90/100 |
| ! | 11/19/2025 10:01 | 1,040 | 90/100 | |
| ! | 11/07/2025 14:39 | bonnequestion | 16,044 | 75/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.1/100, a mean average of 88.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.4.
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There’s just not much music on par with the closing portion of A Love Supreme.
Moving, towering, gargantuan, powerful, blissful, brilliant.
Reading along with the poem in the liner notes while listening to Psalm is a transcendental experience.
The Drums on this 3rd track is incredible.
This is actually my favourite on A Love Supreme. So exciting (in juxtaposition to the other 2 parts of the album) that it strikes you, and so quick but elegantly delivered. My second favourite jazz song, So What being my first.
I didn't like the first part of "Part 3," and "Part 4" was only a little better.
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