Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970, Alice Coltrane’s fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God, Ptah (the El Daoud meaning “the beloved”). Many moments on the album reach what Coltrane herself defined the term Turiya as: “A state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life.”
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Ptah, The El Daoud (1970)
1. Ptah, The El Daoud (Side A)
2. Turiya & Ramakrishna (Side A)
3. Blue Nile (Side B)
4. Mantra (Side B)
Alice Coltrane (piano, harp);
Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax, Alto Flute, Bells);
Joe Henderson (tenor sax, alto flute); Ron Carter (bass);
Ben Riley (drums)
Roy Brooks – Beat
1-LP (single sleeve) 0602445991358 -PPD 20.74
Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohanon and Hugh Lawson, along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a Motor City soul-jazz groove into the hard bop root of this engaging 1964 album. Audio transferred from the analog tapes.
Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.
Beat (1964)
1. Homestretch (Side A)
2. If You Could See Me Now (Side A)
3. Passin’ The Buck (Side A)
4. Soulin’ (Side B)
5. Soulsphere (Side B)
6. My Secret Passion (Side B)
Roy Brooks (drums);
Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Eugene Taylor (bass);
Hugh Lawson (piano); George Bohanon (trombone);
Junior Cook (tenor sax);
