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File under: Spiritual Jazz

Alice Coltrane

A Monastic Trio (Lp)

Label: Superior Viaduct

Format: LP

Genre: Jazz

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**2020 repress** Born Alice McLeod into a musical Detroit family, Alice Coltrane began playing piano at age seven and later studied with Bud Powell in Paris. Upon returning to the States, she joined vibraphonist Terry Gibbs' group and eventually shared a bill with the John Coltrane Quartet. In 1965 the two wed in Juárez, Mexico, and played alongside one another until her husband's last performance in May, 1967.

A Monastic Trio, created in the year following her husband's passing, is Alice Coltrane's first recording as a band leader and features six original compositions. While John's spirit can be felt throughout – from the song titles ("Ohnedaruth" was his adopted Hindu name) to the personnel (Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali, and Pharaoh Sanders were frequent collaborators) – the album showcases Alice's immense talent for fusing spiritual free-jazz and new-age with classical, Eastern, post-bop and gospel.

As the late Amiri Baraka writes, "'I Want to See You' is a monastic piano concerto. With echoes of Europe ..., it has a solemnity and majesty to it.... Yes, monastic is the word. The piano broods in its earth imagination."

Details
File under: Spiritual Jazz
Cat. number: SV020
Year: 2014
Notes:

2020 reissue in gatefold jacket. This music is dedicated to the music, Ohnedaruth, known as John Coltrane during the period from September 23, 1926 to July 17, 1967.

Back cover (bottom right) reads:
Originally released in 1968 on Impulse Records. ©2014 The Verve Music Group. Manufactured by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Warning: All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Superior Viaduct PO Box 193563 San Francisco, CA 94119 USA