MUSiC: Alice Coltrane

I’ve been having another of my occasional Alice Coltrane reveries.

Nice cover!

The above was released on a label called Hi Hat, in 2018. And contained just one track, Africa. The concert itself was recorded waaay back, in ‘71!

The full concert.

Impulse – aka ‘the house that ‘Trane [John!] built’ – finally released the full concert, only this year, 2024.

In between these two releases from the same concert, this – another full live concert, but from ‘72 – came out:

Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972.

Released as a limited edition of 750, by BCT records, this one is hard to buy. But it’s all over YouTube.

Alice, ‘72.

I’m enjoying her musical legacy so much, I’ve ordered a few more of Alice’s recordings:

Eternity, 1976.
Transcendence, 1977.
Devotional religious vocal music.

My Alice Coltrane collection is growing. And now looks a bit like this:

A Monastic Trio, 1968
Ptah The El Daoud, 1969
Huntington Ashram Monastery, 1970
Journey in Satchidananda, 1971
Universal Consciousness, 1971
World Galaxy, 1972
Lord of Lords, 1973
Illuminations [w Santana], 1974
Eternity, 1976
Transcendence, 1977
Transfiguration, 1978
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane, 2017 [Compilation]
Kirtan, Turiya Sings, 2021

Not quite a complete collection, as I don’t have all of her live recordings, or all the stuff from her post Translinear Light return to the music biz later period. But I do now have all of her major label releases, from her ‘68-‘78 period, and then some…

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