It fits perfectly at the end of the album after the turmoil of the sextet tracks. It instantly gives the music more focus, and even Sanders shrieking on his horn sounds more conventional on Alice’s ”Lord Help Me To Be.” Her ”The Sun” is a lovely blues played with profound feeling by herself and the rhythm section. Riley who had played with Thelonious Monk was a drummer who focused a lot more on steady grooves than Rashied Ali. Two new tracks by Alice Coltrane recorded with Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and drummer Ben Riley ends each side of the album. The theme is just as serene as the one to the more well-known ”Alabama” but when Sanders and Coltrane start their improvisations the music becomes much more chaotic. It had been given to him by the parents of Eric Dolphy. The other sextet track ”Reverend King” provides a rare chance to hear Coltrane play the bass clarinet. The fold-out inner cover of the Impulse edition of Cosmic Music. Pharoah Sanders plays a lively solo on piccolo flute which perhaps works better with what the band is playing. The quartet had played together for five years and it was maybe time to move on. On the other hand, it is something different. The difference is that the new band sounds a lot thinner than the powerful accompaniment that Tyner and Jones provided. Pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones had just left the band and on the first track ”Manifestation” Coltrane plays his tenor saxophone solo with some of that same intensity which he used on the last recordings with his quartet with Tyner and Jones. His wife and pianist Alice Coltrane put together Cosmic Music. It features two longer tracks by Coltrane and his sextet with Alice, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Rashied Ali and percussionist Ray Appleton recorded in February 1966. Cosmic Music is except for the album Om the first of his many posthumous albums where the choices of what to release and how fell on others. John Coltrane – Cosmic Music (Coltrane Music/Impulse, 1968)Ĭosmic Music was released twice by two different record labels.Ĭoltrane himself helped put together Expressions which became his first posthumous album.
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