Released 1968 Artist Alice Coltrane Producer Alice Coltrane Genre Jazz | Length 66:43 Release date 1968 Label Impulse! Records | |
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Recorded March 7, 1967
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, January 29, 1968 & June 6, 1968
Dix Hills, New York A Monastic Trio
(1968) Huntington Ashram Monastery
(1969) Similar Alice Coltrane albums, Jazz albums | ||
Alice coltrane a monastic trio full album
A Monastic Trio is the first solo album by Alice Coltrane. Recorded in 1968 (the reissue includes one track from 1967), she intended it to be a tribute to her husband, John Coltrane, who had died the year before.
Contents
Alice coltrane the sun
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Musically, the works here move from the deep bluesy modal structures that Alice Coltrane so loved in John's repertoire... All of these works, with their deep Eastern tinges in the intervals juxtaposed against Western blues phrasing, are wondrously droning and emotional exercises".
Track listing
All compositions by Alice Coltrane- "Lord, Help Me to Be" - 7:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "The Sun" - 4:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Ohnedaruth" - 7:49
- "Gospel Trane" - 6:44
- "I Want to See You" - 6:42
- "Lovely Sky Boat" - 6:51
- "Oceanic Beloved" - 4:18
- "Atomic Peace" - 5:53
- "Altruvista" - 6:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
Tracks 1, 2 & 9 were bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue; tracks 1–2 were previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane Cosmic Music, while track 9 is a previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's Expression.
Personnel
Songs
1Ohnedaruth7:55
2Gospel Trane6:50
3I Want to See You6:48