#Alice Coltrane

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Alice Coltrane

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John & Alice Coltrane, 1966 ♡

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BLACK JOURNAL: 26; ALICE COLTRANE (1970) dir. ST. CLAIR BOURNE

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“Music is powerful. Love is powerful. Poetry is powerful. Art is powerful. Be powerful.” - Alice Coltrane

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Alice Coltrane playing the harp.

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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda LP (1975)

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ALICE COLTRANE | Harp Solo (Jazz Jamboree, 1987)

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"A Love Supreme" - Alice Coltrane, Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw, Poland, October 23, 1987

Just about 60 years ago this week, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner went out to Van Gelder Recording Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to record A Love Supreme. Obviously, this record has become a monument over the decades — much more than just a record. But I always wonder whether the Coltrane Quartet thought of it as anything more than just another date, at least at first; after all, the group minus Coltrane also recorded McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington that week, too — a great, but very different vibe! "We didn't talk about a lot of things," Tyner said. "I mean, I didn't know what we were going to do. We couldn't really explain why things came together so well, you know, and why it was, you know, meant to be. I mean, it's hard to explain things like that."

Yeah it is! But here's the late/great Greg Tate doing a pretty good job of it:

"What the Coltrane quartet had was two of music's more elusive qualities in combination — namely, melody and gravitas. You can hear them in certain Black voices that came to fore in the '60s — Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X — and in certain rappers today like Rakim, Nas, GZA. But the Coltrane Quartet, like King, also gave voice and timbre to their heaviest burden, a swollen, implacable compassion for the human condition that required that everything they had be laid on the line. You can't buy that level of commitment off a rack, download it from the Net neither, and you damn sure can't fake it. You can only deliver it from evil and maybe even bleed for it: Tyner has said he knew it was time for him to leave the band when he saw Trane bleeding from the mouth while blowing and not even seeming to care. That degree of indefatigable discipline and unbridled passion can still render so many fans of the quartet speechless, enchanted, focused, uplifted." 

Enchanted, focused, uplifted — that's what you'll be after checking out a sublime video of Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane, Reggie Workman and Roy Haynes (who sadly just passed away at the age of 99 this fall) tackling some Love Supreme themes in Warsaw about two decades after John left this earth. ELATION — ELEGANCE — EXALTATION.

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Alice Coltrane

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Alice Coltrane

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Alice Coltrane (ph. Robert A. “Bobby” Sengstacke)

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Alice Coltrane, August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007.

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Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) solo - bandleader and collaborator with John Coltrane Songs: "Universal Consciousness," "Shiva-Loka" Propaganda: see visual

Dolly Parton (1946-) solo Songs: "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You" Propaganda: "One of the best country (and any) musicians to grace us with her talents for decades! A bimbo with a brain and we love her! Beyoncé and Whitney Houston covered her songs. This woman supports women! And literacy! But also her voice is one of a kind and she knows how to command any stage she's on." "She's one of the world's best-selling musicians and she's an actress! Shes's also an advocate for LGBT rights, gives money to HIV/AIDS research, and many more causes. She donates one book per month to every kid born in Tennessee up until they're 5 years old. She put a lot of money into COVID research. Her large chest is so well-known that it's been written about in songs, military tanks have been named after her, and Dolly the cloned sheep shares her name. Also, she apparently wrote Jolene and Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in the same day!" "She's adorable. She's funny. She smart and business savvy enough that she would probably be a billionaire if she wasn't also a genuinely wonderful human being who gives tons and tons of money away to various charities and causes. She's so supportive of younger artists and artists of color and the queer community. She's always so gracious and genuinely excited when new artists cover her songs. She's the best thing to ever come from the state of Tennessee and I love her entirely. We do not deserve her but I'm glad we have her."

Visual Propaganda for Alice Coltrane:

Visual Propaganda for Dolly Parton:

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Alice Coltrane Lord of Lords (1972)