Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 281 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Modal | Label: Impulse! | # UCCI-9110 | Time: 00:42:18
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 281 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Modal | Label: Impulse! | # UCCI-9110 | Time: 00:42:18
Lord of Lords, released in 1972, was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! It was the final part of a trilogy that began with Universal Consciousness and continued with the expansive World Galaxy. Like its immediate predecessors, the album features a 16-piece string orchestra that Coltrane arranged and conducted, fronted by a trio in which she plays piano, Wurlitzer organ, harp, and timpani with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ben Riley. Riley was familiar with the setting because he had been part of the sessions for World Galaxy. The first two pieces, "Andromeda's Suffering" and "Sri Rama Ohnedaruth" (titled after the spiritual name for her late husband, John Coltrane), are, in essence, classical works. There is little improvisation except on the piano underneath the wall of strings. They are scored for large tone clusters and minor-key drone effects, but also engage in creating timbral overtones. They are quite beautiful, yet have little or nothing to do with jazz except for the seemingly free passages toward the end of the latter track, but even these feel scored, because of the control of tension and dynamic. "Excerpts from The Firebird," which uses the organ to open the piece, features the strings playing almost (because with Alice Coltrane, she interpreted in her own way) directly from Igor Stravinsky's score. The droning organ is so gorgeous underneath those reaching strings that it's breathtaking. As to why she chose this piece as the centerpiece for her own album, she claimed that Stravinsky came to her in a vision and passed something on to her in a glass vial, a liquid that she drank!
Riley and Haden appear in earnest on the title track, a long modal piece where drones, rhythms, and time signatures are registered through the direction of Coltrane's piano and harp, creating a blissful kind of tension and dynamic. It cracks open at about six minutes, and Coltrane (on the organ), Haden, and Riley engage in some lively improvisation, with the strings offering trilling high-end swooping in the background. The set ends with Coltrane's transformation of a gospel hymn called "Going Home." Her harp introduces Riley's brushes and the strings, which in turn offer a root chord for her to play the melody and improvise upon it on the organ. Here the blues make their presence known. It offers a kind of understanding for the listener that Coltrane, no matter where this musical direction was headed (even as it went further toward the Cosmic Music she and her late husband envisioned together), continued to understand perfectly where her musical root was. The interplay between the three principals is lively and engaging, based on droning blues chords, and her soloing – even amid flurries of notes – comes right back to the root, and she quotes quite directly from Delta blues riffs and other gospel songs. Haden's bass is a beautiful anchor here (although mixed a bit low), and the strings offer a lovely response to her organ and harp. Riley's cymbals are shimmering shards of light throughout, ending Lord of Lords on a very high note. While it's true that Alice Coltrane's later Impulse! music may not be for everyone, even those who followed her earlier, more jazz-oriented recordings on Impulse!, it was obvious from the beginning that she was seeking to incorporate Indian classical music's drone center into her work, and was literally obsessed with the timbral, chromatic, and harmonic possibilities of strings. She succeeds here, in ending her Impulse! period with elegance, grace, and soul.Review by Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com
Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
Performers:
Alice Coltrane - piano, organ, harp, tympani, percussion
Charlie Haden - bass
Ben Riley - drums, percussion
String Orchestra:
Murray Adler - concertmaster
Nathan Kaproff, Lou Klass, William Henderson, Ronald Folsom, Leonard Malarsky, Gordon Marron, Janice Gower, Gerald Vinci, Sidney Sharp, James Getzoff, Bernard Kundell - violins
Myra Kestenbaum, Rollice Dale, Leonard Selic, David Schwartz, Samuel Boghosian, Marilyn Baker - violas
Jesse Ehrlich, Jerry Kessler, Jan Kelly, Anne Goodman, Edgar Lustgarten, Ray Kelley, Raphael Kramer - cellos
Recorded at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA on July 5-13, 1972.
Tracklist:
01. Andromeda's Suffering (09:04)
02. Sri Rama Ohnedaruth (06:11)
03. Excerpts from the Firebird (05:45)
04. Lord of Lords (11:17)
05. Going Home (09:59)
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Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
