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Alice Coltrane: The Spiritual Odyssey of Jazz's Mystical Visionary

Introduction: Alice Coltrane was a pioneer in blending the worlds of jazz and spirituality. Her journey from a talented jazz pianist to a revered spiritual leader is a testament to her unique vision and relentless pursuit of artistic and spiritual transcendence. Through her music, she explored the depths of human consciousness, drawing from a deep well of religious and philosophical influences.…

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9 albums and 9 tags game - Thanks for the tag @right-stopthat-its-silly

A La Sala - Khruangbin - New release! The ultimate chill out on a sunny day album. Spent a good chunk of yesterday listening to this from start to end.

Spiritual Vegas - Paint - Love the eastern music meets modern psych music. Ta Fardeh is a bop!

Ptah the El Daoud - Alice Coltrane - The ultimate in relaxing psychedelic jazz. The best way to spend a sunny Saturday morning with a nice latte.

Los Llamas - Los Llamas - Some vinyl I thrifted on a family trip to Cuba. Just spun it at the beginning of a party as folks were showing up. Good vibes and good rhythms!

Plantasia - Mort Garson - Of course I listen to music for my houseplants! I actually just love old school synth music. Mort Garson is the ultimate in composing a good time via some synths. Not just for snake plants!

Fragile - Yes - One of my constant vinyl spins. I know all the words by now. The only thing that pops to mind whenever I see a physical roundabout on the road.

The Remix Strikes Back - Uptown Funk Empire - my latest walking around music. IMO, disco never died and these remixes prove it! Shake that groove thang!

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushroom, and Lava - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Had to include something from my favorite band! This jammy psych album has a GRIP on me and the music theory nerd in me is obsessed that every track is done in each of the Greek Modes. Will we survive? Ice Five.

Welcome to Zamrock! - Various Artists - Zambian music in the 70s was *chef's kiss*! Khala My Friend was literally my brain's loading music for about a year.

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The album title "Ptah, The El Daoud" refers to the ancient Egyptian deity Ptah, who was believed to be the creator of the universe, and "El Daoud," which is Arabic for "the beloved."

The song title "Turiya & Ramakrishna" is named after two spiritual figures from India: Turiya, a Sanskrit word meaning "the fourth state of consciousness," and Ramakrishna, a 19th-century Indian mystic and saint.

(The fourth state of consciousness is sometimes translated as "pure consciousness." It is considered to be the source of all other states of consciousness and the underlying ground of all existence. In Turiya, the individual self (or ego) is said to be dissolved, and the individual becomes aware of their true nature as pure consciousness. It is described as a state of profound peace, bliss, and spiritual realization.)

"Turiya & Ramakrishna" features Alice Coltrane on harp and piano, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, and Ron Carter on bass. The track has been praised for its beautiful melody and improvisation, as well as its spiritual depth and exploration. It has since become a jazz standard and a signature piece of Alice Coltrane's body of work.

Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) is famous for her contributions to jazz music as a pianist, organist, harpist, and composer. She was a key figure in the development of spiritual jazz, a subgenre of jazz music that emphasizes spiritual and meditative qualities, and incorporated elements of Indian classical music into her compositions.

She married the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane in 1965, and played piano and harp on some of his later albums, including "Ascension" and "Meditations". After John Coltrane's death in 1967, Alice Coltrane began to explore her own musical vision, incorporating elements of Indian classical music, African music, and gospel music into her compositions.

In addition to her musical achievements, Alice Coltrane was also known for her spiritual pursuits. She became a devotee of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual community in California. She also established the Sai Anantam Ashram in Agoura Hills, California, where she lived and recorded until her death in 2007.

Alice Coltrane's innovative approach to jazz music, her incorporation of diverse musical traditions, and her spiritual pursuits have made her a revered figure in the jazz world and beyond.

(Satchidananda refers to Sri Swami Satchidananda, an Indian guru who gained fame in the West for his teachings on yoga and spirituality.)

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Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders & Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El Daoud (1970)

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Alice Coltrane. Ptah, the El Daoud. 1970.

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He first gained wide recognition for his work with John Coltrane. He went on to a fertile, prolific career, releasing dozens of albums as a leader.

The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders in performance in Brooklyn in 2015.Credit...Sam Polcer for The New York Times

Published Sept. 24, 2022Updated Sept. 25, 2022

Pharoah Sanders, a saxophonist and composer celebrated for music that was at once spiritual and visceral, purposeful and ecstatic, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 81.

His death was announced in a statement by Luaka Bop, the company for which he had made his most recent album, “Promises.” The statement did not specify the cause.

The sound Mr. Sanders drew from his tenor saxophone was a force of nature: burly, throbbing and encompassing, steeped in deep blues and drawing on extended techniques to create shrieking harmonics and imposing multiphonics. He could sound fierce or anguished; he could also sound kindly and welcoming.

He first gained wide recognition as a member of John Coltrane’s groups from 1965 to 1967. He then went on to a fertile, prolific career, with dozens of albums and decades of performances.

Mr. Sanders played free jazz, jazz standards, upbeat Caribbean-tinged tunes and African- and Indian-rooted incantations such as “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” which opened his 1969 album, “Karma,” a pinnacle of devotional free jazz. He recorded widely as both a leader and a collaborator, working with Alice Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, Joey DeFrancesco and many others.

Looking back on Mr. Sanders’s career in a 1978 review, Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote, “His control of multiphonics on the tenor set standards that younger saxophonists are still trying to live up to, and his sound — huge, booming, but capable of great delicacy and restraint — was instantly recognizable.”

Mr. Sanders told The New Yorker in 2020: “I’m always trying to make something that might sound bad sound beautiful in some way. I’m a person who just starts playing anything I want to play, and make it turn out to be maybe some beautiful music.”

Pharoah Sanders was born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Ark, on Oct. 13, 1940. His mother was a cook in a school cafeteria; his father worked for the city.

He first played music in church, starting on drums and moving on to clarinet and then saxophone. (Although tenor saxophone was his main instrument, he also performed and recorded frequently on soprano.) He played blues, jazz and R&B at clubs around Little Rock; during the era of segregation, he recalled in 2016, he sometimes had to perform behind a curtain.

In 1959 he moved to Oakland, Calif., where he performed at local clubs. His fellow saxophonist John Handy suggested he move to New York City, where the free-jazz movement was taking shape, and in 1962, he did.

At times in his early New York years he was homeless and lived by selling his blood. But he also found gigs in Greenwich Village, and he worked with some of the leading exponents of free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Sun Ra.

It was Sun Ra who persuaded him to change his first name to Pharoah, and for a short time Mr. Sanders was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Mr. Sanders made his first album as a leader, “Pharoah,” for ESP-Disk in 1964. John Coltrane invited him to sit in with his group, and in 1965 Mr. Sanders became a member, exploring elemental, tumultuous free jazz on seminal albums like “Ascension,” “Om” and “Meditations.”

After Coltrane’s death in 1967, Mr. Sanders went on to record with his widow, the pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, on albums including “Ptah, the El Daoud” and “Journey in Satchidananda,” both released in 1970.

Mr. Sanders had already begun recording as a leader on the Impulse! label, which had also been Coltrane’s home. The titles of his albums — “Tauhid” in 1967, “Karma” in 1969 — made clear his interest in Islamic and Buddhist thought.

His music was expansive and open-ended, concentrating on immersive group interaction rather than solos, and incorporating African percussion and flutes. In the liner notes to “Karma,” the poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote, “Pharoah has become one long song.” The 32-minute “The Creator Has a Master Plan” moves between pastoral ease — with a rolling two-chord vamp and a reassuring message sung by Leon Thomas — and squalling, frenetic outbursts, but portions of it found FM radio airplay beyond jazz stations.

During the 1970s and ’80s, Mr. Sanders’s music moved from album-length excursions like the kinetic 1971 “Black Unity” toward shorter compositions, reconnections with jazz standards and new renditions of Coltrane compositions. (He shared a Grammy Award for his work with the pianist McCoy Tyner on the 1987 album “Blues for Coltrane.”) His recordings grew less turbulent and more contemplative. On the 1977 album “Love Will Find a Way,” he tried pop-jazz and R&B, sharing ballads with the singer Phyllis Hyman. He returned to more mainstream jazz with his albums for Theresa Records in the 1980s.

But his explorations were not over. In live performances, he might still bear down on one song for an entire set and make his instrument blare and cry out. During the 1990s and early 2000s he made albums with the innovative producer Bill Laswell. He reunited with the blistering electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock — who had been a Sanders sideman — on the 1991 album “Ask the Ages,” and he collaborated with the Moroccan Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania on “The Trance of Seven Colors” in 1994.

Information on Mr. Sanders's survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. Sanders had difficult relationships with record labels, and he spent nearly two decades without recording as a leader. Yet he continued to perform, and his occasional recorded appearances — including his wraithlike presence on “Promises,” his 2021 collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sam Shepherd, the electronic musician known as Floating Points — were widely applauded.

Reviewing “Promises” for The Times, Giovanni Russonello noted that Mr. Sanders’s “glistening and peaceful sound” was “deployed mindfully throughout the album,” adding, “He shows little of the throttling power that used to come bursting so naturally from his horn, but every note seems carefully selected — not only to state his own case, but to funnel the soundscape around him into a precise, single-note line.”

In 2016 Mr. Sanders was named a Jazz Master, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In a video made in recognition of his award, the saxophonist Kamasi Washington said, “It’s like taking fried chicken and gravy to space and having a picnic on the moon, listening to Pharoah.” The saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin said, “It’s like he’s playing pure light at you. It’s way beyond the language. It’s way beyond the emotion.”

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Ginger Radio Hour #037

Show Notes April 4, 2023

Listen to archived episode.

Theme: Love and forgiveness.

Featured: Writer, artist, and gardener Marc Hamer has a new book called Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens. In many ways, it's a guide book for a life well-lived, given up to love and forgiveness. Our conversation veers from spiritual to practical and back again, focusing on shade plants, the outdoors, books, and childhood.

Playlist:

Herbie Hancock “Watermelon Man” Album: Head Hunters 1973

Makaya McCraven “The Fours” Album: In These Times 2022

Alice Coltrane “Blue Nile” Album: Ptah the El Daoud 1970

Dinah Washington “Salty Papa Blues” Album: A Slick Chick (on the Mellow Side) 1983

Duke Ellington “El Gato” Album: Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert (Recorded Live in England) 1969

Professor Longhair “Go To The Mardi Gras” Album: Meet Me At Mardi Gras 2012

The Quintet “Salt Peanuts (Live)” Album: The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall 2002 (Recorded in 1953)

Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane “The Sleeper” Album: Cannonball & Coltrane 1959

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Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud (1970)

A1 Ptah, The El Daoud 13:58 A2 Turiya & Ramakrishna 8:19

B1 Blue Nile 6:58 B2 Mantra 16:33

Genre: Jazz Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Modal

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BUSINESS DRUNK RADIO: MIDNITE 1

BUSINESS DRUNK RADIO Today  11pm EST bombshellradio.com Business Drunk Radio's early morning jazz club The 3am Music Room:Track list: Alice Coltrane feat. Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders- Ptah, the El Daoud Bobbi Humphrey- Chicago, Damn Miles Davis- I Fall In Love Too Easily Stanley Turrentine- Then I'll Be Tired Of You Oliver Nelson- Cascades Kenny Dorham- Lotus Blossom Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto- Corcovado Keith Jarrett- Kohln Concert part IIc Read the full article

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Alice Coltrane – Ptah, the El Daoud

Alice Coltrane – Ptah, the El Daoud

USA, 1970, spiritual jazz We got Pharoah Sanders on the right, Joe Henderson on the left, and Coltrane stuck in the middle with them. I’d say, then, that if there was ever an album in need of headphones, it’s this one. What a brilliant way to get the listener involved! Where love, consciousness, and life intersect. Head meets heart on this album. “Turiya” is way more peaceful than I thought a…

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Alice Coltrane’s “Turiya And Ramakrishna”

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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, 1937-2007

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"Turiya And Ramakrishna" - Alice Coltrane (Ptah, the El Daoud - 1970)