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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Alice
Coltrane
UCLA 2006
[no label, 1CD]
Live
at UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles, February 18, 2006
Alice Coltrane, widow
of the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and the pianist in his later bands,
died on Friday, January 12, 2007, in Los Angeles. She was 69. The cause
was respiratory failure, said Marilyn McLeod, her sister and assistant.
Although Alice might
have been John Coltrane's wife, she was also a fine musician in her own
right. In their tribute to Alice, the out-there jazz site, Destination
Out, writes: "And here's the important thing: Alice was never afraid
to look foolish. Some of her choices like, say, letting her guru chant over
her rendition of "A Love Supreme," could make even her staunchest supporters
blush. But that was part of the vision, too. She was pushing herself
- both musically and spiritually - as far as she could, trusting
her wild muse. Many of today's artists are far too fucking tasteful, afraid
to go out on a limb for fear of it snapping under them, and end up settling
for work that's simply pedestrian. It's that old saw: Good taste
is the enemy of art."
After a 26-year hiatus
from her previous album, 1978’s Transfiguration, which was recorded
live at UCLA, Alice released Translinear Light in 2004. She was compelled
to return to recording music by son Ravi Coltrane, who begged her for
five years before she finally acquiesced to his request.
"It was really fun
recording," Alice told Arthurmag.com. "(Ravi) was the one who really pleaded
and begged and told me, 'Everywhere I go people are asking (about you)'."
John Coltrane had
asked his wife to be part of his musical legacy by replacing his original
pianist McCoy Tyner and have her join his band. "He had such insight,"
Alice said. "I was surprised that he asked me to join the band. (It was)
not that I felt unqualified or not up to level; it wasn’t a matter
of music or ability. It was just the number of talented people in the
music world."
Writing in jazzreview.com,
Edward Kane commented on the February 18 show at the UCLA: "Part of the
magic of hearing music performed in person is the fact that you can’t
know for certain what will happen in advance. That’s true in all
kinds of music, but it’s particularly true when it comes to jazz.
You can have an idea, sometimes a fairly good one, but you don’t
know exactly what live music is going to sound like until it is played.
When the artist in question hasn't played publicly for decades, as Alice
Coltrane hadn't, it deepens the sense of alchemy that much further. That
enigmatic quality never quite left the performance, even as the music
unfolded. Such was the sublime nature of the concert, striking awe into
the audience and inviting them to delight in the mystery of music, of
life."
Perhaps it is music
fan Richard Horowitz who summed it up best when he reviewed the show on
his blog: "From the moment her hands touched the piano her fingers played
notes that weren't there, notes in between the black keys and the white
keys; notes carved directly into the unknown. There, in the urgency of
that very first attack she resumed her primordial battle with chaos and
harmony - The Ultimate Harmony - the chord that first started the universe
and that is still moving through all of us. She is a medium and warrior,
a woman with an ancient soul capable of bending the rigid chromatic tuning
of the ultimate western instrument into an eastern one by creating undulating
collisions. Notes collide at the edges of her elliptical phrases and suns
are born.
"She is juggling
waves of sound plasma. Flowing, shifting multidimensional webs and warps
of energy that are grounded in the earth and far beyond the earth's gravity.
She is channeling from above and below at the same time but there is no
above and no below. She is an ethereal antenna in a fluid state of grace
and balance. Her hands are magnets shifting over the keys; pulling the
energy up from the molten core of the planet - up through us all and back
to the cosmos. Fragile and grounded at-once, the timeless lightness of
her presence is poised calmly above an immense physical and metaphysical
catharsis."
The Coltrane family's
wishes regarding donations:
In lieu of flowers,
the Coltrane family asks that you please send donations to the following
charities:
- The John Coltrane Foundation
- 21777 Ventura Blvd., Suite 253; Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
- St Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- MusiCare
Foundation - 156 W. 56th St. Suite 1701; New York, NY 10019.
- Habitat for Humanity.
Thanks to tranehead
who shared this fine audience recording, we now have the chance to listen
to Alice Coltrane live at UCLA's Royce Hall on February 18, 2006.
Click on the highlighted
tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample
rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never
been officially released.
Note: Due to the size of some of the files, please be patient when
downloading the tracks.
Thanks to John Schott for identifying Track 2.
Readers are welcomed
to email us the tracklist if they can identify the untitled tracks.
Lineup:
Alice Coltrane
- piano
Ravi Coltrane
- saxophone
Reggie Workman
- bass
Trevor Lawrence
Jr - drums
Click
on the link to order Alice Coltrane albums.
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