Stunning ALICE COLTRANE - LORD OF LORDS VINYL LP JAZZ orig IMPULSE 1st PRESS
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1st PRESSING Issued in a gate-fold jacket. See Notes ....
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BORDERING ON MINT. Yes, It's that CLEAN. (Strictly graded!!!) SEE PICS !!!
Lord of Lords Review
by Thom Jurek
Lord of Lords, released in 1973, was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! It was the final part of a trilogy that began with Universal Consciousness and continued with the expansive World Galaxy. Like its immediate predecessors, the album features a 16-piece string orchestra that Coltrane arranged and conducted, fronted by a trio in which she plays piano, Wurlitzer organ, harp, and timpani with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ben Riley. Riley was familiar with the setting because he had been part of the sessions for World Galaxy. The first two pieces, "Andromeda's Suffering" and "Sri Rama Ohnedaruth" (titled after the spiritual name for her late husband, John Coltrane), are, in essence, classical works. There is little improvisation except on the piano underneath the wall of strings. They are scored for large tone clusters and minor-key drone effects, but also engage in creating timbral overtones. They are quite beautiful, yet have little or nothing to do with jazz except for the seemingly free passages toward the end of the latter track, but even these feel scored, because of the control of tension and dynamic. "Excerpts from The Firebird," which uses the organ to open the piece, features the strings playing almost (because with Alice Coltrane, she interpreted in her own way) directly from Igor Stravinsky's score. The droning organ is so gorgeous underneath those reaching strings that it's breathtaking. As to why she chose this piece as the centerpiece for her own album, she claimed that Stravinsky came to her in a vision and passed something on to her in a glass vial, a liquid that she drank!
Alice Coltrane – Lord Of Lords
Label: Impulse! – AS-9224, ABC Records – AS-9224 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz A1Andromeda's Suffering Written-By – A. Coltrane* 9:04 A2
Sri Rama Ohnedaruth Written-By – A. Coltrane* 6:12 A3
Excerpts From The Firebird Composed By – I. Stravinsky* 5:43 B1
Lord Of Lords Written-By – A. Coltrane* 11:17 B2
Going Home Adapted By – A. Coltrane* Written-By – Traditional Spiritual* 10:02
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABC Records, Inc.
- Copyright © – ABC Records, Inc.
- Published By – Jowcol Music
- Published By – Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp.
- Recorded At – The Village Recorder
- Mixed At – The Village Recorder
- Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
- Bass – Charlie Haden
- Cello – Anne Goodman, Edgar Lustgarten (2), Jan Kelly*, Jerry Kessler*, Jesse Ehrlich, Raphael Kramer, Ray Kelley
- Drums, Percussion – Ben Riley
- Engineer – Baker Bigsby
- Harp, Piano, Organ, Timpani [Tympani], Percussion, Arranged By, Conductor – Alice Coltrane
- Lacquer Cut By – T.S.*
- Producer – Ed Michel
- Viola – David Schwartz, Leonard Selic, Marilyn Baker, Myra Kestenbaum, Rollice Dale, Samuel Boghosian*
- Violin – Bernard Kundell, Gerald Vinci, Gordon Marron, James Getzoff, Janice Gower, Leonard Malarsky, Lou Klass, Murray Adler, Nathan Kaproff, Ronald Folsom, Sidney Sharp, William Henderson (2)
Recorded and mixed at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, from July 5 to July 13, 1972
Center labels mark sides as Side A and Side B.
Label variant: says "A Product of ABC Records Inc. © 1971"
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