Alice Coltrane 1978 Transfiguration – Video




Alice Coltrane 1978 Transfiguration
00:00 Transfiguration 11:42 11:43 Spoken Introduction One For The Father 7:25 19:07 Prema 9:16 28:23 Affinity 10:50 39:13 Krishnaya 3:21 42:33 Leo, Part One 16:35 59:08 Leo, Part Two 20:11 Bass -- Reggie Workman Drums -- Roy Haynes Piano, Organ -- Alice Coltrane Written-By -- John Coltrane (tracks: Leo) on Prema: Cello - Christina King, Ray Kelley / Viola - Janice Ford, Pamela Goldsmith / Violin - J. Rosen, Murray Adler, Noel Pointer, Sherwyn Hirbod, M. Sita Coltrane BBC Review John Eyles Understandably, reactions to Alice Coltrane have often focussed as much on her spirituality as on her playing. The twin focuses (obsessions?) of her music have been the legacy of her late husband and her religious devotion, the two hardly being separable at times. Transfiguration was recorded live at UCLA in 1978, with Reggie Workman on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. To date, it is the last jazz recording that Coltrane has made. (She has made several subsequent recordings of devotional songs and chants.) In her pre-Coltrane years, Alice was reputedly quite a player of bebop, but by this stage of her career, her playing was a distant relative of those roots, with few overt traces of jazz. Her electronic keyboard work seems far more influenced by African and Indian musics, and there are often strong affinities with the organ playing of (another devotional figure) minimalist Terry Riley. Her lengthy improvisations show little development, often using repetition and a limited dynamic range ...From:Grashopper EddieViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:19:20More inMusic

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