Alice Coltrane :: Jaya Jaya Rama

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The humidity continues to linger, so we’re choosing to sweat it out with this fierce slice of late night free jazz. “Jaya Jaya Rama,” the closing number to Alice Coltrane’s 1969 lp, Huntington Ashram Monastery, is pure, unabashed expression. Featuring Coltrane on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums, the trio takes a nocturnal blues and stretches it way out, with Coltrane blistering away on the keys, entering a deep modal groove. While the gentlemen keep the rhythm nice and cool, Coltrane plunges into the keys with such primal force you might think she was performing an exorcism. So jump in, the water is more than warm. words / c depasquale

Alice Coltrane :: Jaya Jaya Rama

4 thoughts on “Alice Coltrane :: Jaya Jaya Rama

  1. can’t believe i had never seen or heard this album before! i love alice but this one slipped past me somehow. thanks for posting!

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