Alice Coltrane, 1937-2007

Farewell, Alice.

Alice Coltrane's take on one of her husband's most familiar compositions is from the out-of-print World Galaxy. I pulled it from the revelatory Red Hot On Impulse, which is also out-of-print. The performance features many of the elements that characterized her music- deep spirituality, ground-breaking musical fusions, funky keyboard work and inevitably, the vast shadow cast by Coltrane's late husband. It's utterly astounding. Alice Coltrane died January 12. She was 69.