Alice Coltrane’s 1968 tribute to her recently deceased husband Ohnedaruth, aka John Coltrane, featuring his bandmates Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali, on a magnificent and heartfelt attempt to sustain his legacy
John Coltrane died in 1967 after playing an instrumental role in ushering jazz from be bop and hard bop to its free jazz and modal phase since the late ‘50s. In 1968 his widow Alice Coltrane would posthumously issue their ‘Cosmic Music’ collaboration, alongside ‘A Monastic Trio’, a sublime dedication to her husband and his legacy, continuing to expand on the syncretic philosophies and modal clinamen that had pushed him to break with and form new traditions during the ’60s.
Initially ill-received by jazzist critics who took umbrage with Alice’s use of harp and other unconventional instruments to channel his spirit, history has only lent balance to that bias, with ‘A Monastic Trio’ now heard as the beginning of a new form of spiritual jazz devotion that prompted so many others to expand their definition of the genre it its wake, and hail Alice Coltrane as a pioneer in her own right.
Pushing off with the brooding shivers and shrieks that give way to Alice’s spiralling piano arpeggios in ‘Ohnedaruth’, so called for John’s Sanskrit spiritual name, Alice and the nobles of John’s final band touch on swanging post-bop fused with gospel in ‘Gospel Trane’, and take in the clear-eyed glory of ‘Lovely Sky Boat’ and ‘Oceanic Beloved’ - landmark precedents for Alice’s future works - along with the cosmic swoon of ‘Atomic Peace’ on a fitting tribute to their departed lover, tutor, and bandleader.
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Alice Coltrane’s 1968 tribute to her recently deceased husband Ohnedaruth, aka John Coltrane, featuring his bandmates Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali, on a magnificent and heartfelt attempt to sustain his legacy
John Coltrane died in 1967 after playing an instrumental role in ushering jazz from be bop and hard bop to its free jazz and modal phase since the late ‘50s. In 1968 his widow Alice Coltrane would posthumously issue their ‘Cosmic Music’ collaboration, alongside ‘A Monastic Trio’, a sublime dedication to her husband and his legacy, continuing to expand on the syncretic philosophies and modal clinamen that had pushed him to break with and form new traditions during the ’60s.
Initially ill-received by jazzist critics who took umbrage with Alice’s use of harp and other unconventional instruments to channel his spirit, history has only lent balance to that bias, with ‘A Monastic Trio’ now heard as the beginning of a new form of spiritual jazz devotion that prompted so many others to expand their definition of the genre it its wake, and hail Alice Coltrane as a pioneer in her own right.
Pushing off with the brooding shivers and shrieks that give way to Alice’s spiralling piano arpeggios in ‘Ohnedaruth’, so called for John’s Sanskrit spiritual name, Alice and the nobles of John’s final band touch on swanging post-bop fused with gospel in ‘Gospel Trane’, and take in the clear-eyed glory of ‘Lovely Sky Boat’ and ‘Oceanic Beloved’ - landmark precedents for Alice’s future works - along with the cosmic swoon of ‘Atomic Peace’ on a fitting tribute to their departed lover, tutor, and bandleader.