A Monastic Trio

Alice Coltrane
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 * A Monastic Trio


 * Genre: Jazz


 * Style: Avant Garde Jazz


 * Released: 1968


 * Recording Date: 1967, 1968


 * Label: Impulse!

Tracklisting
1. Lord Help Me To Be [*] 2. The Sun [*] 3. Ohnedaruth 4. Gospel Trane 5. I Want To See You 6. Lovely Sky Boat 7. Oceanic Beloved 8. Atomic Peace 9. Altruvista [*]

[*] Bonus Tracks

Tracks 1–3 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 29, 1968; tracks 4–8 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. Tracks 1, 2 & 9 were bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue; tracks 1–2 were previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane Cosmic Music, while track 9 is a previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's Expression.

Personnel
Alice Coltrane — harp, piano Pharoah Sanders — flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone Jimmy Garrison — bass Rashied Ali — drums Ben Riley — drums

Producer: Alice Coltrane

Review
link Alice with all Coltrane alumni – Pharaoh Sanders and the super-rhythm section of Jimmy Garrison and Rashid Ali! Some hard modal blues played with flourishes of eastern percussion and train-loads of feeling. Check out the muscular leadoff track “Lord Help Me to Be" or the sparse tension builders “I Want to See You" or “Ohnedaruth". If you have any question as to whether or not she was a worthy successor to McCoy Tyner in Trane's band, check out her bursts of fingerbusting on the sublime solo song “The Sun"