{"product_id":"alice-coltrane-featuring-pharoah-sanders-and-joe-henderson-ptah-the-el-daoud-verve-by-request-series","title":"Alice Coltrane featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson – Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes written off as an also-ran to her more famous husband, Alice Coltrane's work of the late '60s and early '70s shows that she was a strong composer and performer in her own right, with a unique ability to impregnate her music with spirituality and gentleness without losing its edges or depth. \u003cem\u003ePtah, The El Daoud\u003c\/em\u003e is a truly great album, and listeners who surrender themselves to it emerge on the other side of its 46 minutes transformed. From the purifying catharsis of the first moments of the title track to the last moments of \"Mantra,\" with its disjointed piano dance and passionate ribbons of tenor cast out into the universe, the album resonates with beauty, clarity, and emotion. Coltrane's piano solo on \"Turiya and Ramakrishna\" is a lush, melancholy, soothing blues, punctuated only by hushed bells and the sandy whisper of \u003c\/span\u003eBen Riley\u003cspan\u003e's drums and later exchanged for an equally emotive solo by bassist \u003c\/span\u003eRon Carter\u003cspan\u003e. \"Blue Nile\" is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; Coltrane's sweeping flourishes on the harp nestle in perfectly with flute solos by \u003c\/span\u003ePharoah Sanders\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eJoe Henderson\u003cspan\u003e to produce a warm cocoon of sound that is colored by evocations of water, greenness, and birds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps as strong as the writing here, though, are the performances that Coltrane coaxes from her sidemen, especially the horn players. \u003c\/span\u003eJoe Henderson\u003cspan\u003e, who can always be counted on for technical excellence, gives a performance that is simply on a whole other level from much of his other work -- freer, more open, and more fluid here than nearly anywhere else. \u003c\/span\u003ePharoah Sanders\u003cspan\u003e, who at times with \u003c\/span\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003cspan\u003e seemed like a magnetic force of entropy, pulling him toward increasing levels of chaos, shows all of the innovation and spiritual energy here that he is known for, with none of the screeching. Overlooked and buried for years in obscurity, this album deserves to be embraced for the gem it is. — via AllMusic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eVerve By Request Series features transfers from analog tapes, remastered on 180-gram vinyl, and pressed at Third Man in Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6XyhwP7a50E4u83H9aM8sD?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Verve Records, Impulse!, UMe\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Verve By Request, University Series Of Fine Recordings\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180g, Gatefold\u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2022 \/ Original Release: 1970\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Avant-garde Jazz, Modal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Spiritual Jazz\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42298489766046,"sku":"602445991372","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/VERLP99137__35639.jpg?v=1670923440","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/alice-coltrane-featuring-pharoah-sanders-and-joe-henderson-ptah-the-el-daoud-verve-by-request-series","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}