ALICE COLTRANE RARE QUAD 'WORLD GALAXY' BRILLIANT STUNNING MOMENT IN '70s JAZZ
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ALICE COLTRANE 'WORLD GALAXY' VERY RARE QUAD!
A BRILLIANT, STUNNING MOMENT IN '70s JAZZ!
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World Galaxy Review by Thom Jurek
Courtesy of AllMusic.comAlice Coltrane had become a musical world unto herself by the time she issued World Galaxy, recorded in late 1971. With jazz-rock fusion taking over the mainstream and the terminal avant-garde heading over to Europe, Coltrane stubbornly forged an insistent, ever-evolving brand of spiritual jazz that bore her own signature as much as it did her late husband's influence. On the two days in November when World Galaxy was recorded, Coltrane chose drummer Ben Riley, bassist Reggie Workman, violinist Leroy Jenkins, saxophonist Frank Lowe, and timpanist Elayne Jones in addition to a string orchestra of 16 to help her realize her latest vision. Coltrane herself plays piano, harp, and organ on this date, sometimes within a single track, as she does on her glorious post-modal reworking of "My Favorite Things." This was a gutsy move, considering it was one of John Coltrane's signature tunes, but Alice has it firmly in hand as she moves from organ to harp to piano and back, turning the melody inside out wide enough for the strings to whip up an atmospheric texture that simultaneously evokes heaven and hell and skewers the prissy nature of the tune in favor of bent polyharmonics that allow the entire world of sound inside to play. The jazz modalism Coltrane presents on "Galaxy Around Olodumare" is quickly undone by Lowe in his solo and reconstructed into polyphony by the string section; it's remarkable. The harp work on "Galaxy in Turiya" (Alice's religious name) is among her most beautiful, creating her own wash of color and dynamic for the strings to fall like water from the sky into her mix. As colors shift and change, the rhythm section responds, and focuses them in the prism of Coltrane's textured harpistry. The album closes with another John Coltrane signature, "A Love Supreme," here given an out of this world treatment by the band with Jenkins playing full force through the middle of both channels. There is a narration by Coltrane's guru inside it, a poem really, spoken by the great guru Satchidananda, which no doubt would have moved John Coltrane, but the real news is Alice's killer, funky breakbeat organ solo that covers the tune top to bottom in blues, in stark contrast to Jenkins' improvisation. This set may take some getting used to for some, but it's easily one of the strongest records Alice Coltrane ever released, and one of the finest moments in jazz from the early '70s.
Alice Coltrane With Strings – World Galaxy
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Label: Impulse! – AS-9218, Impulse! – AS 9218, ABC Records – AS-9218, ABC Records – AS 9218 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Soul-JazzTracklist
Hide Credits A1 My Favorite Things Composed By – Rogers-Hammerstein* Composed By – Rogers-Hammerstein* 6:22 A2 Galaxy Around Olodumare Composed By – Alice Coltrane Composed By – Alice Coltrane 4:15 A3 Galaxy In Turiya Composed By – Alice Coltrane Composed By – Alice Coltrane 9:55 B1 Galaxy In Satchidananda Composed By – Alice Coltrane Composed By – Alice Coltrane 10:25 B2 A Love Supreme Composed By – John Coltrane Composed By – John Coltrane 9:58Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
- Record Company – ABC Records, Inc.
- Mixed At – The Village Recorder
- Published By – Williamson Music
- Published By – Jowcol Music
Credits
- Arranged By, Orchestrated By, Piano, Organ, Harp, Tambura [Tamboura], Percussion, Producer – Alice Coltrane
- Bass – Reggie Workman
- Concertmaster – David Sackson
- Cover, Design – Peter Max (2)
- Drums, Percussion – Ben Riley
- Engineer [Assistant] – Dan Turbeville*, Dennis Ferrante
- Mixed By – Baker Bigsby
- Narrator – Swami Satchidananda (tracks: B1, B2)
- Photography By – Philip Melnick
- Producer – Ed Michel
- Recorded By – Tom Flye
- Strings – Alan Shulman, Arthur Aaron, Avron Coleman, Edward Green*, Harry Glickman, Henry Aaron, Irving Spice, Janet Hill, Joan Kalisch, Julien Barber, Ronald Lipscomb, Seymour Miroff*, Thomas Nickerson, William Stone
- Strings, Violin [Solo] – LeRoy Jenkins (tracks: B2)
- Tenor Saxophone, Percussion – Frank Lowe
- Timpani [Tympani] – Elayne Jones
Notes
Slightly different labels than World Galaxy. With New York address.Gatefold cover.
Recorded November 15 and 16, 1971, at The Record Plant, New York City.
Mixed at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles.
QS encoded quadraphonic LP. Compatible with Stereo.
Swami Satchidananda spelt in three different ways on the sleeve.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society (A1): ASCAP
- Rights Society (A2 to B2): BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A): AS-9218 A RE 2 L
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B): AS-9218 B RE 2 L
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