Coltrane Alice
A Monastic Trio - Verve By Request Series
Label: Verve
Genre: Jazz / Avant Garde
Availability
- LP 180gr Audiophile €39.99 Out of Stock
A Monastic Trio, created in the year following her husband's passing, is 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."
This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit. Gatefold cover.