Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy (1969, 1972) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Series Remaster rel 2011}
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy (1969, 1972) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Series Remaster rel 2011}
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© 1969, 1972, 2011 Impulse! / Verve / Universal Music | 06025 2780946
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Composition / Free Improvisation / Modern Jazz / Harp / Piano
This remastered two-fer combines Alice Coltrane's 1969 release Huntington Ashram Monastery with World Galaxy from 1972. Originally, these LPs were released separately on Impulse. Both sets are spiritual in nature, with the first three cuts on H.A.M. combining the majestically meditative harp of Coltrane with Ron Carter on bass and Rashied Ali on drums and percussion.
Coltrane switches to piano on the album’s final three cuts bringing the free jazz component into focus, especially from Ali, who is slightly subdued on this date. World Galaxy opens and closes with two compositions associated with John Coltrane: "My Favorite Things" and a section from his masterpiece "A Love Supreme." Alice Coltrane is featured on harp, piano, and organ with saxophonist Frank Lowe, bassist Reggie Workman, drummer Ben Riley, violinist Leroy Jenkins, and a full string section. The music takes time to open up, slowly building dense layers that venture into free jazz but never completely succumb to it.
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy (1969, 1972) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Series Remaster rel 2011}
Composer, pianist, keyboard player, harpist and bandleader Alice (McLeod) Coltrane married John Coltrane in 1965. She played in her husband's band until his passing in 1967 but his influence remained strong throughout her music thereafter. Few of her albums reflect this influence more strongly than Huntington Ashram Monastery, recorded in 1969, and World Galaxy, recorded in 1971, here combined as part of the Impulse!/Universal 2-on-1 Impulse! reissue series.
Huntington captures a trio date with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Rashied Ali, who picked up for Elvin Jones in John Coltrane's band and helped propel 'Trane into his most "free" jazz. Its title track, originally composed as a solo harp piece, and "Parmahansa Lake" pivot their internal (meditative) and external (exploratory) faces upon the fulcrum of Carter's repetitive, throbbing bass, even though their swirling movements and rhythms, especially from Coltrane's harp, sound static, nearly floating. "I am especially pleased with Ron Carter's playing on this album," she wrote in Monastery's original notes. "His ears are harmonically attuned to higher chord progressions."
Coltrane moves from harp to piano for "Via Sivanandager" and "Jaya Jaya Rama" and the piano's less heavenly, more temporal sound seems to root them in more earthly styles. The spiritual overtones, and multiplicity and sheer volume of her notes, impart such majestic jazz power to "Via Sivanandager" that the comparison to McCoy Tyner, another of her husband's most famous sidemen, seems almost too evident. Her piano roots "Jaya Jaya Rama" in the blood, sweat and tears of the blues.
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy (1969, 1972) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Series Remaster rel 2011}
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The meditative sound cloud World Galaxy sounds like music more meant for hearing than listening, which makes its eventual #12 peak in 1972's jazz charts seem even more curious. You've got to admire the vision—and perhaps even the courage—behind her sprawling reorganization of "My Favorite Things," one of her late husband's most famous favorites: Coltrane's electric keyboard picks up the melody for the first few measures, then begins to toy with it like Sun Ra and soon launches the melody into improvisatory overdrive, all wrapped in the first of many pirouetting, brilliant string arrangements.
The prayerful trilogy "Galaxy Around Olodumare," "Galaxy in Turiya" and "Galaxy in Satchidananda" feature these same lush strings surrounding Coltrane's organ, tamboura and harp, which flutters within and around the sound like a winged angel.
"A Love Supreme" transforms her late husband's familiar music into a genuine musical experience—a religious musical experience centered around the sacredness of the word "love" and the nature and name of God which opens with the pronouncement of the word: "Love. Love is a sacred word. Love is the name of God…" The music accompanying Swami Satchidananda's meditation is also led by the epic, dramatic almost cinematic string section and ornamented by Coltrane's rippling celestial harp. She introduces this song's second half by noodling out the chant "A love su- preme" on electric organ, and then explores its outer limits while bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Ben Riley (who injects what we'd call today some hip-hop thump) slowly build a rampaging funk leviathan underneath.
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy (1969, 1972) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Series Remaster rel 2011}
Personnel:
Huntington Ashram Monestery:
Alice Coltrane: harp, piano
Ron Carter: bass
Rashied Ali: drums, percussion
World Galaxy:
Alice Coltrane: piano, organ, harp, tamboura, percussion
Frank Lowe: saxophones, percussion
Reggie Workman: bass
Ben Riley: drums
Swami Satchidananda: voice
Leroy Jenkins: solo violin
Huntington Ashram Monestery - LP Impulse AS-9185 (1969)
World Galaxy - LP Impulse AS-9218 (1972)
tracklist:
Huntington Ashram Monestery
01 - Huntington Ashram Monastery
02 - Turiya
03 - Paramahansa Lake
04 - Via Sivanandagar
05 - IHS
06 - Jaya Jaya Rama
World Galaxy
07 - My Favorite Things
08 - Galaxy Around Olodumare
09 - Galaxy In Turiya
10 - Galaxy in Satchidananda
11 - A Love Supreme
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