Alice Coltrane

• 8 PANEL DOUBLE DIGIPACK EDITION

Alice Coltrane’s 1971 concert at Carnegie Hall is released here for the first time officially and in full. It presents Alice Coltrane’s first Carnegie Hall performance as a leader, joined by an all-star band comprising Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, Ed Blackwell, Clifford Jarvis, Kumar Kramer, and Tulsi Reynolds. They played four songs: “Journey in Satchidananda” and “Shiva-Loka” (from Journey in Satchidananda) and versions of John Coltrane’s “Africa,” and “Leo.”

This recording is a key document as it falls in the middle of a very fertile period for her developing an ever-evolving brand of spiritual jazz that bore her own signature as much as it did her late husband's influence. A period that produced three really impressive albums, perhaps the finest in her discography: Journey in Satchidananda (July-November 1970), Universal Conciousness (April 1971) and World Galaxy (November 1971), a truly remarkable period, necessary for anyone interested in the development of modal and experimental jazz. It is also art of the highest order, conceived by a brilliant mind, poetically presented in exquisite collaboration by divinely inspired musicians. This time frame is, arguably, one of the finest moments in jazz from the early '70s.

PERSONNEL:

Pharoah Sanders - (tenor sax)
Archie Shepp - (tenor & soprano sax, percussion)
Alice Coltrane _ (piano, harp, percussion)
Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison - (bass)
Drums – Clifford Jarvis, Ed Blackwell - (drums)
Harmonium – Kumar Kramer - (harmonium)
Tulsi Reynolds - (tambora)

Recorded live from Carnegie Hall, New York Feb 21, 1971

CD ONE

01 Journey in Satchidananda ..... (15:02)
02 Shiva-Loka ..... (14:00)

CD TWO

01 Africa ..... (28:09)
02 Leo  ..... (21:34)