Jazz Articles about Alice Coltrane

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Alice Coltrane: Transfiguration

by AAJ Staff
June 22, 2002

Following the death of her husband in '67, Alice Coltrane steadily recorded an album a year up until Transfiguration in 1978, a live session which consequently represents the culmination of her spiritual music via recordings and, for the most part, public appearances as well. After her first seven sessions through the late ‘60s and early '70s for Impulse!, Ms. Coltrane began recording for Warner in '75 around the time she founded a center for Eastern religious studies.

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McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions

by Jim Santella
January 1, 1997

Three numbers on this 1970 reissue recall the classic Coltrane quartet sound, and the fourth track goes a step further, into the spiritual late period Coltrane change. Tyner's sextet here includes Alice Coltrane's harp, Wayne Shorter's tenor and soprano, Gary Bartz' alto, Elvin Jones' drums, and Ron Carter's bass.A powerful virtuoso, McCoy Tyner carried the legacy onward after Coltrane's death. “Message From The Nile," based on a 12-note, 2-bar motif stated initially by the saxophones of ...