Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El-Daoud - New Vinyl Spiritual Jazz LP - Ships Fast
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Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El-Daoud - New Vinyl Spiritual Jazz LP Record - Ships Fast!!
Ptah, the El Daoud is the third solo album by American jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, first released on Impulse! Records in September 1970. The album was recorded in the basement of her home in Dix Hills, New York, in a session on January 26, 1970.
While Pharoah Sanders had played bass clarinet on one track on 1968's A Monastic Trio, this was Coltrane's first album to feature wind players more extensively, with Sanders and Joe Henderson playing tenor saxophone on two tracks and alto flute on "Blue Nile" (on which Coltrane also switches from piano to harp). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Henderson on the left channel throughout. Coltrane noted that "Joe Henderson is more on the intellectual side, while Pharoah is more abstract, more transcendental."
All of the compositions were written by Coltrane. The title track is named the Egyptian god Ptah, "El Daoud" meaning "the beloved" in Arabic. Turiya "was defined by Coltrane as "a state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while Ramakrishna was a 19th-century Bengali Hindu mystic; the name also denotes a movement founded by his disciples. Jim Evans designed the album's artwork.
In a review for AllMusic, Stacia Proefrock called Ptah, the El Daoud "a truly great album", writing: "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... Overlooked and buried for years in obscurity, this album deserves to be embraced for the gem it is."[4] Mark Richardson of Pitchfork commented: "Coltrane is tremendously versatile on this record, at some points hunkering down in gauzy mysticism while elsewhere concentrating on logical, disciplined soloing. Echoes of her grounding in post-bop jazz are still present, though less so than on her 1968 debut A Monastic Trio." He described the track "Turiya and Ramakrishna" as featuring "some of [Coltrane's] greatest piano playing on record".
This wonderful album pressing comes in a gatefold jacket and is very eager for you to listen to it.
Tracklist:
A1 Ptah, The El Daoud A2 Turiya & Ramakrishna B1 Blue Nile B2 Mantra
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