Alice Coltrane Ptah The El Daoud Vinyl Reissue

The music is reletively straight forward but this does not take from its sheer power.

Alice coltrane ptah the el daoud vinyl reissue.

The album is all the more remarkable for being out of print on vinyl since 1974. This was coltrane s first album with horns aside from one track on a monastic trio 1968 on which pharoah sanders played bass clarinet. Alice coltrane featuring pharoah sanders and joe henderson. Alice coltrane featuring pharoah sanders and joe henderson ptah the el daoud lp album re gat impulse abc records.

This time coltrane hovers somewhere between the meditativeness of journey in satchadananda and the bombast of universal consciousness pharaoh sanders and joe henderson are both billed on the album although their mentioned in small print on the front of the album. It is the rare album that captures not just brief moments of brilliance but entire passages that transport the listener. This is blues as reverence. Complete your alice coltrane featuring pharoah sanders and joe henderson collection.

This was coltrane s first album with horns aside from one track on a monastic trio 1968 on which pharoah sanders had played bass clarinet. By 1983 alice had established the 48 acre sai anantam ashram outside of los angeles. Alice coltrane turiyasangitananda s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life an often overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four year marriage to john coltrane and after his 1967 death. This is blues as reverence.

Sanders is recorded on the right channel and joe henderson on the left channel throughout. Alice coltrane s ptah the el daoud has an inner luminosity that transcends its performances and composition. The music is reletively straight forward but this does not take from its sheer power. This is not the etherial free jazz alice coltrane devled into on albums like universal consciousness after making this album in 1970.

With ptah the el daoud alice coltrane again threw me for a loop that was expected but still a surprise. Out of stock ptah the el daoud was the third solo album by alice coltrane. Sanders is recorded on the right channel and joe henderson on the left channel throughout. Ptah the el daoud recorded and released in 1970 is the third solo album by alice coltrane.