Those two had played with each other on most of her recordings with John, and he was on her previous album Ptah, the El Daoud. McBee plays a relaxed bass line underneath Coltrane on harp and Sanders on soprano. The tanpura is a drone instrument that is at the very root of this track and several others. Tulsi on tanpura and Majid Shabazz on bells send this track over the top. If this album had been a one-sided single of “Journey in Satchidananda” (6:33), it would have been sufficient. harp Pharoah Sanders, soprano saxophone, percussion Charlie Haden, double bass Rashied Ali, drums and Vishnu Wood, oud. For “Isis and Osiris,” recorded live July 4, 1970, at The Village Gate in New York City, the group was: Alice Coltrane. piano, harp Pharoah Sanders, soprano saxophone, percussion Cecil McBee, double bass Rashied Ali, drums Tulsi, tanpura and Majid Shabazz, bells, tambourine. The band for the studio tracks: Alice Coltrane. Album photography was by Chuck Stewart and Ed Michel. Coltrane and Ed Michel produced the album. It was recorded at the Coltrane home studio in Dix Hills, New York. Her first four albums clearly indicated that direction: A Monastic Trio, Cosmic Music, Huntington Ashram Morastery, and Ptah, the El Daoud, all on the Impulse! label.Īlice Coltrane had become disciple of Swami Satchidananda, which explains the title of her 1971 masterpiece Journey in Satchidananda, recorded Novem(except for one live track) and issued in January of 1971.
After his death in 1967, she continued on that spiritual path, eventually leading to her becoming a swamini. Her music took their cues initially from John Coltrane’s music such as A Love Supreme. Her first three albums were with vibraphonist Terry Gibbs (1963-1964). During that time she recorded two dozen albums under her own name, another six with husband John Coltrane (1966-1967), and recordings with Roland Kirk, Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, and McCoy Tyner.
The Class of 1971: Alice Coltrane - ‘Journey in Satchidananda’Īlice Coltrane (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) was a great American jazz pianist and harpist whose career spanned six decades.
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