Alice Coltrane "Blue Nile" (1970)

From the 1970 album "Ptah, the El Daoud"

Alice Coltrane — harp, piano
Joe Henderson — alto flute, tenor saxophone
Pharoah Sanders — alto flute, tenor saxophone, bells
Ron Carter — bass
Ben Riley — drums

This was Coltrane's first album with horns (aside from one track on A Monastic Trio (1968), on which Pharoah Sanders had played bass clarinet). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout.

All the compositions were written by Coltrane. The title track is named for the Egyptian god Ptah, "the El Daoud" meaning "the beloved". "Turiya", according to the liner notes, "was defined by Alice as 'a state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while "Ramakrishna" is named after the 19th-century Bengali religious figure; this track omits the horns. The origin of the title of "Blue Nile" is self-explanatory, Coltrane switches from piano to harp, and Sanders and Henderson from tenor saxophones to alto flutes. "Mantra" returns to piano and saxes.

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[MrGemini612]

Check her Nephew out he gos by the name of flying lotus, he is just a modern day expression of this

[cooljazzlady]

Beautiful! But how could it be anything else-with this group of musicians?!

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

Is it blasphemous to say I like this more than her husband's last several albums?

[dollarmoney1]

@MrGemini612 im nicolas coltrane that is my grandmother flying lotus is my cousin and we hang out all the time

[Andza21]

FlyLo has a song deticated to his aunt alice, theres samples of her playing the harp. Its called Alice. A similar one is called Aunties Harp

[ZanzibarJose]

odd. my mother has this exact record sitting b4 me. I have the cut with the sax on m mp3 and not the flute.

[PropheticSarahNell]

All I can say is mmmmm!

[thedeeliciousplum]

This was simply beyond beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. Will definitely listen to this as oft as possible.

[samsarahmail]

lovely...

[onepresence]

God Is!

[KHYNG1]

@MrGemini612 its actually her Great Nephew...and he has some amazing stuff !!