Alice Coltrane piece from The New Yorker

[mjzee]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/alice-coltranes-devotional-music

[David Ayers]

I happened to buy that issue. Next up: Hank Mobley?

 

 I'm still trying to figure out why I ever buy this magazine if it is all available online...

[paul secor]

Seemed like a piece of total fluff to me.

[JSngry]

I've heard some of the cassettes. Not going to change anybody's mind, but I found the music to have integrity within itself, and also to be surprisingly accessible.

[T.D.]

Mosaic's weekly "Jazz Gazette" e-mail today had a link to a JazzTimes item on this release: https://jazztimes.com/news/luaka-bop-release-new-alice-coltrane-compilation-may-5/

I'll wait to hear some clips, though I admit not owning any of her Impulse recordings (which I'd be inclined to look to first).

Edited April 23, 2017 by T.D.

[7/4]

Impulse recordings essential, WB at least interesting.

 

[JSngry]

The cassettes (and, as I understand it for some items, CDs) were sold here: http://www.innerpath.com/swamini-turiyasangitananda-alice-coltrane/

And ok, pre-order now if you like: https://alicecoltrane.bandcamp.com/

 

[clifford_thornton]

13 hours ago, JSngry said:

I've heard some of the cassettes. Not going to change anybody's mind, but I found the music to have integrity within itself, and also to be surprisingly accessible.

pretty much.

[JSngry]

Her singing on these  is surprisingly (or maybe not) "churchy", in the African-American way, many of the songs are as well. People expecting drone-y micro-tonal melismatic trance music might find themselves very surprised, one way or the other.

[jazzbo]

Yes, what I have of this from cassette is very interesting. I'm in, I've preordered the CD. 

[Dave Garrett]

On 4/23/2017 at 11:55 PM, David Ayers said:

 I'm still trying to figure out why I ever buy this magazine if it is all available online...

I believe you can only view a limited number of articles per month before the paywall kicks in. I'm not sure of all the details as I'm a subscriber, but I've hit the paywall before when my preferred mobile Twitter client failed to properly pass my credentials from a previous login through to the New Yorker's site.

[Dmitry]

On 4/23/2017 at 7:11 AM, paul secor said:

Seemed like a piece of total fluff to me.

Not bad, imho. I learned something new. It's certainly better than Amanda Petrusich's piece on Sonny Rollins in the same magazine. 

[jazzbo]

Just arrived and is spinning now. Beautiful booklet. Sound is considerably better than I expected!