A Monastic Trio
Appearance
A Monastic Trio | ||||
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Studio album by Alice Coltrane | ||||
Released | 1968 | |||
Recorded | January 29 & June 6, 1968 | |||
Studio | John Coltrane home studios, Dix Hills, New York | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 66:43 | |||
Label | Impulse! Records | |||
Producer | Alice Coltrane | |||
Alice Coltrane chronology | ||||
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A Monastic Trio is the first solo album by Alice Coltrane. Recorded in 1968 (the reissue includes one track from 1967), she intended it to be a tribute to her husband, John Coltrane, who had died the year before.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Musically, the works here move from the deep bluesy modal structures that Alice Coltrane so loved in John's repertoire... All of these works, with their deep Eastern tinges in the intervals juxtaposed against Western blues phrasing, are wondrously droning and emotional exercises".[1]
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Track listing
All compositions by Alice Coltrane
Side A
- "Ohnedaruth" - 7:49
- "Gospel Trane" - 6:44
- "I Want to See You" - 6:42
Side B
- "Lovely Sky Boat" - 6:51
- "Oceanic Beloved" - 4:18
- "Atomic Peace" - 5:53
Bonus track on 1998 CD reissue
- "Lord, Help Me to Be" - 7:30
- "The Sun" - 4:01
- "Altruvista" - 6:55
- Tracks A1 & CD bonus tracks 1 & 2 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 29, 1968 (bonus tracks 1 & 2 previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane Cosmic Music);
- tracks A2–B3 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on June 6, 1968;
- track 9 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 7, 1967 (previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's Expression).
Personnel
On track A1
- Ben Riley — drums
- Jimmy Garrison — bass
- Pharoah Sanders — bass clarinet
- Alice Coltrane — piano
On tracks A2-B4
- Rashied Ali — drums
- Jimmy Garrison — bass
- Alice Coltrane — piano (on tracks A2-A3), harp (on tracks B1-B3)
References
- ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 30, 2011
External links
- A Monastic Trio — Impulse! page