Browse by Artist: COLTRANE, ALICE

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Journey In Satchidananda
Label:	IMPULSE!
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	IMP 228HLP

Exact repro. 180 gram virgin vinyl. Originally issued in 1971. Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders (soprano saxophone, perc); Charlie Haden (bass); Rashied Ali (drums); Cecil McBee (bass); Vishnu Wood (oud); Tulsi (tamboura); Majid Shabazz (bells, tambourine). "Swamiji is the first example I have seen in recent years of Universal Love or God in action. He expresses an impersonal love, which encompasses thousands of people. Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore. 'Satchidananda' means knowledge, existence, bliss." --Alice Coltrane

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Transfiguration
Label:	SEPIA-TONE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STONE 001CD

"In 1966, she replaced pianist McCoy Tyner in her husband John Coltrane's group. Coltrane's work became a spiritual wellspring for her, but she surely developed her own style on piano, organ, harp, and later, Indian instruments such as the tamboura. After Coltrane's death in 1967, Alice began recording under her own name for Impulse!, leading groups that included at various times saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Joe Henderson, Frank Lowe, and Carlos Ward, double bass players Cecil McBee and Jimmy Garrison, and drummers Rashied Ali, Ben Riley, and Roy Haynes. In the mid-'70s she moved from Impulse! to Warner Bros., for whom she recorded some of her most spiritual and adventurous music ever. Deeply infused with Hindu religious music, whole sides of her albums were devoted to arrangements of religious chants. Transfiguration was recorded live at UCLA in 1978, during a time when she briefly set aside the Hare Krishna choirs and exotic instruments in favor of the trio format of her early period, revisiting with Reggie Workman on bass and Roy Haynes on drums several of her own tunes as well as her late husband's way-out opus 'Leo.' This performance was deeply spiritual, but definitely jazz. Originally released as a double-LP, Sepia-Tone inaugurates the label with this historic recording on CD for the first time ever, newly re-mastered and released as a double-disc package with brief new notes from Alice herself."

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Eternity
Label:	SEPIA-TONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	STONE 005CD

"As jazz tried to crossover to pop during the mid-'70s -- sometimes succeeding, sometimes sounding death knells for jazz careers -- Alice Coltrane headed in a different direction, although where is still a subject of debate. On the reissue of her wildly eclectic Eternity, which originally brought her from Impulse! to Warner Bros in 1975, two tunes are lush horn-and-string-orchestra settings; two are meditative, Eastern-sounding pieces; the album is rounded off by her first use of vocals (on 'Om Supreme'), and the percussion-heavy, rumba-esque 'Los Caballos.' As is customary all the tracks feature spiritual annotation and explanation."

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Transcendence
Label:	SEPIA-TONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	STONE 006CD

"Transcendence is Alice Coltrane's most successful vocal album. Side two is especially mind-twisting for its use of surprisingly funky Hindu chants accompanied by Alice's organ and the Indian percussion of the singers. Purists might balk at calling Hare Krishna filtered through a gospel sensibility 'jazz,' but they're too busy arguing about Ken Burns' documentary to worry about Alice Coltrane reissues anyway. This is probably the most 'swinging' Alice Coltrane material since Ptah The El Daoud."

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Translinear Light
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 1010CD

Japanese version, regular jewel box packaging (please note, this is also out in the US on Impulse!). Japanese version features one exclusive track not found on the US version: "Part 1: Acknowledgement" (as written by John Coltrane, for the first section of Love Supreme). With Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane. "Translinear Light is Alice Coltrane's first recording in 26 years, since she withdrew from active performing and recording in the late '70s to open an ashram and devote herself primarily to spiritual pursuits. The astonishing fact of Translinear Light is that Alice Coltrane's artistry is as fresh, complete, and compelling as in any of her celebrated works of thirty years ago or more. Her rigorously inventive approach to the music overflows with richly harmonized, exquisitely embellished ideas. Playing acoustic piano on tracks like her own 'Translinear Light' and John Coltrane's 'Crescent' she shows all the dexterous and imaginative powers at her command, from shimmering arpeggios to powerful thrusting chords. She authoritatively exploits all of the instrument's tonal and harmonic possibilities from the rumbling bass to the tinkling top wind chime notes. Though she doesn't play the harp on this recording, she often makes the piano sound like a harp. In her idiosyncratic voicings on the Wurlitzer organ, the profound influence of Indian and Eastern music can be heard, with bent notes and a raga-like approach to improvisation, as on her arrangement of the traditional Hindu hymn 'Sita Ram' which opens the album. For Alice Coltrane, it is clear that all music is devotional music. Translinear Light is a logical extension of the spiritual and musical path that John and Alice Coltrane began together. It is radiant, cosmic, psycho-active music, which, despite its depth and complexity, has a timeless and universal appeal. This is one for the history books."

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	A Monastic Trio
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9104CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). The first Alice Coltrane album, originally issued by Impulse! Studio recordings from 1967/68. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders : (bass clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone); Ben Riley (drums); Rashied Ali (drums); Jimmy Garrison (bass; John Coltrane (voice). "It is called a monastic trio, because John's body has left here. And all the music she has made 'more separated' from John than the initial 'Ohnedaruth' is monastic (Where she has lived separated, herself, from public drain). Monastic and spun solitarily in a string cosmos/universe inhabited by memory, of event and emotional circumstance. But they are all loneliness mentioned, sung about." -- As Salaam Alaikum, Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones), from liner notes to A Monastic Trio.

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Journey In Satchidananda
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9107CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). Originally issued by Impulse! in 1971. Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders (soprano saxophone, perc); Charlie Haden (bass); Rashied Ali (drums); Cecil McBee (bass); Vishnu Wood (oud); Tulsi (tamboura); Majid Shabazz (bells, tambourine). "Swamiji is the first example I have seen in recent years of Universal Love or God in action. He expresses an impersonal love, which encompasses thousands of people. Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore. 'Satchidananda' means knowledge, existence, bliss." --Alice Coltrane

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Universal Consiousness
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9108CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). Originally issued by Impulse! in 1971. Recorded in NY, 1971. Alice Coltrane (harp, organ); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Clifford Jarvis (drums, percussion); Rashied Ali (drums, wind chimes); Tulsi (tamboura); John Blair, Julius Brand, Leroy Jenkins and Joan Kalisch (violin). "Regardless of one's own musical standpoints or of the particular cosmology of one's beliefs, this is Devotional music of the highest level, as it must be- majestic, serene, sublime, a richly-woven tapestry in sound; music of unsurpassable breadth and beauty to be heard as long as men with souls live."

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