If you want to know why John Coltrane loved his second wife Alice so much, you have to listen to the double album “Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert” (Impulse), which has just been released for the first time. In four pieces on February 21, 1971, she showed the entire incredible late development of the music of her husband, who died in 1967. She plays harp and piano, accompanied by a double rhythm section and two saxophonists, as if to say that this music was far too big for one person. And precisely because she had two saxophonists with her, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, who were her husband’s companions but not epigones, this album is such an enlightenment.
Alice Coltrane’s phenomenal “Carnegie Hall Concert” – Culture
