Name: Africa, Live At The Carnegie Hall 1971
Brand: Alice Coltrane

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FOX026

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black

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-14

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Supplier GB

Lasgo

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UPC / Barcode

5060672883269

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Alice Coltrane

Genre GB

Jazz

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The musician and spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane was much more than just John Coltrane's second wife. One of the few harpists to feature prominently in jazz, she was also a renowned pianist and composer and her interest in spiritual matters greatly helped steer her husband deeper into Krishna consciousness, which had significant bearing on his music, most notably evident on A Love Supreme (1965). This mesmerizing performance, held at Carnegie Hall four years after John's untimely passing as part of a benefit event for Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga Institute, comprised a stunning and largely improvised rendition of Coltrane's "Africa," with Alice's subtle piano and harp expressions excellently framed by the wailing saxes of Pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp, Cecil McBee and Jimmy Garrisontrading non-standard bass lines, a dual drum onslaught from Clifford Jarvis and Ed Blackwell, along with members of the Institute on harmonium and tamboura

Africa, Live At The Carnegie Hall 1971

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