The Carnegie Hall Concert (Alice Coltrane album)
2024 live album by Alice Coltrane / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carnegie Hall Concert is a live album by Alice Coltrane. It was recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on February 21, 1971, and was released in 2024 by Impulse! Records. On the album, Coltrane appears on piano and harp, and is joined by saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp, double bassists Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee, and drummers Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis.[1][2][3]
The Carnegie Hall Concert | ||||
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Released | 2024 | |||
Recorded | February 21, 1971 | |||
Venue | Carnegie Hall, New York City | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 79:26 | |||
Label | Impulse! 00602458828696 | |||
Producer | Ken Druker | |||
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The album was recorded at a benefit for Swami Satchidanda's Integral Yoga Institute that also featured Laura Nyro and The New Rascals.[4][5] A concert reviewer for Billboard described Coltrane's band as "one of the greatest assemblages to appear on the Carnegie Hall stage."[6]
The recording features two compositions by Alice Coltrane, "Journey in Satchidananda" and "Shiva-Loka," both of which appeared on her album Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1971),[7] plus two pieces by her late husband, John Coltrane: "Africa," first heard on the 1961 album Africa/Brass,[8] and "Leo," versions of which previously appeared on the Impulse! albums Infinity (1972),[9] Live in Japan (1973),[10] Interstellar Space (1974),[11] The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 3: Jupiter Variation (1978),[12] and Offering: Live at Temple University (2014).[13] This performance of "Africa" was originally issued on Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat, 2018).[14]