Alice Coltrane PTAH THE EL DAOUD (Lp Vinyl, Impulse AS-9196, 1970 First Ed) Rare

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"Ptah The El Daoud" by Alice Coltrane
First Edition Lp Vinyl 1970
Used - Graded VG - (Vinyl & Sleeve) 
Impulse Label
Cat Ref. AS1916

We are guided in Grading by Goldmine.  Please note that both Vinyl and Sleeve are graded VG - (Very Good Minus) and not, as indicated above in box 'Very Good'.  eBay's grading does not give us a place to check VG minus. 

Vinyl graded VG-.  Both sides show number of marks when inspected under good light.  Most of the album plays 'Very  Good' at worst, but there are 2 short passages where you can  hear a tick at same place through several rotations.  Nothing  has affected our own ability to listen to, and enjoy the album.   The music was recorded at a high enough level to rise above  any surface noise except during couple minimal passages  (one toward end of "Mantra" and one at beginning of "Turiya &"  are reason for the 'minus'. Other minimal passages play fine.
Sleeve also VG-.  Please see pics.  We won't grade any with split seam (abt 2 inches on spine, and splitting to some degree on top and bottom of part of jacket that holds album - this is a Gatefold Sleeve.  
All LP's are shipped with Vinyl outside Sleeve in  cartons designed to ship Record Albums.  
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Tracks:
A1  Ptah, The El Daoud   (13:58) A2  Turiya &    (8:19)
B1  Blue Nile  (6:58) B2  Mantra  (16:33)
Alice Coltrane, piano and harp Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone, alto blutye, and bells Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone and alto flute Ron Carter, bass Ben Riley, drums
Recorded in Coltrane home Dix Hills, Ny Jan 26, 1970
Impulse (ABC) Records  AS-9196  1970 "University Series of Recordings" 
Liners by Leonard Feather
Album Review
Sometimes written off as an also-ran to her more famous husband, Alice Coltrane's work of the late '60s and early '70s shows that she was a strong composer and performer in her own right, with a unique ability to impregnate her music with spirituality and gentleness without losing its edges or depth.Ptah, The El Daoud is a truly great album, and listeners who surrender themselves to it emerge on the other side of its 46 minutes transformed. From the purifying catharsis of the first moments of the title track to the last moments of "Mantra," with its disjointed piano dance and passionate ribbons of tenor cast out into the universe, the album resonates with beauty, clarity, and emotion. Coltrane's piano solo on "Turiya and Ramakrishna" is a lush, melancholy, soothing blues, punctuated only by hushed bells and the sandy whisper of Ben Riley's drums and later exchanged for an equally emotive solo by bassistRon Carter. "Blue Nile" is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; Coltrane's sweeping flourishes on the harp nestle in perfectly with flute solos by Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson to produce a warm cocoon of sound that is colored by evocations of water, greenness, and birds. Perhaps as strong as the writing here, though, are the performances that Coltrane coaxes from her sidemen, especially the horn players. Joe Henderson, who can always be counted on for technical excellence, gives a performance that is simply on a whole other level from much of his other work -- freer, more open, and more fluid here than nearly anywhere else. Pharoah Sanders, who at times withJohn Coltrane seemed like a magnetic force of entropy, pulling him toward increasing levels of chaos, shows all of the innovation and spiritual energy here that he is known for, with none of the screeching. Overlooked and buried for years in obscurity, this album deserves to be embraced for the gem it is.    All Music



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