Transfiguration

Transfiguration

Double vinyl LP pressing. By the late '70s, Alice Coltrane had largely gravitated away from jazz, incorporating Hindu chants and hymns into her music to reflect a newfound sense of creative omnipotence. However, in April 1978, she would return to her roots, performing at University of California, Los Angeles to make her first and only live album. Transfiguration, featuring drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Reggie Workman, showcases Alice's many compositional talents and fierce improvisatory abilities. Throughout this double LP set, her playing evokes the time spent in her late husband John Coltrane's band and the avant-garde music of her earlier years. As biographer Franya J. Berkman writes, "Her up-tempo keyboard work here is the most exciting of her commercial career. With it's rapid-fire transpositions of short figures; it's long modal passages, rhythmic play, and timbral inventiveness; it's sustained energy and burning pace; and the unrelenting support of Haynes and Workman, she takes leave of the jazz business with a truly breathtaking swan song." Alice Coltrane would not revisit jazz on record for another 26 years, turning instead to spiritual music made with students at her Vedantic Center and self-releasing a series of cassettes under her Sanskrit name, Turiyasangitananda. It is hard to imagine a better farewell than the intense and spellbinding Transfiguration.
Country USA
Brand ANTARCTICA START
Manufacturer Antarctica Starts
Binding Vinyl
ItemPartNumber ASH314
Model ASH314
ReleaseDate 2019-05-10
UnitCount 2
UPCs 857661008193
EANs 0857661008193

Country	USA
Brand	ANTARCTICA START
Manufacturer	Antarctica Starts
Binding	Vinyl
ItemPartNumber	ASH314
Model	ASH314
ReleaseDate	2019-05-10
UnitCount	2
UPCs	857661008193
EANs	0857661008193

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