A Monastic Trio

Infobox Album | Name = A Monastic Trio
Type = Studio album
Artist = Alice Coltrane


Released = 1968
Recorded = 1967–1968
Genre = Jazz
Length = 66:43
Label = Impulse! Records
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9d9ke9tjq79 link]
Producer = Alice Coltrane
Last album =
This album = "A Monastic Trio"
(1968)
Next album = "Huntington Ashram Monastery "
(1969) |

"A Monastic Trio" is the first solo album by Alice Coltrane. Recorded in 1968 (the reissue includes one track from 1967), she intended it a tribute to her husband, John Coltrane, who had died the year before.

Track listing

#"Lord, Help Me to Be"
#"The Sun"
#"Ohnedaruth"
#"Gospel Trane"
#"I Want to See You"
#"Lovely Sky Boat"
#"Oceanic Beloved"
#"Atomic Peace"
#"Altruvista"

Tracks 1–3 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 29 1968; tracks 4–8 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on June 6 1968; track 9 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 7 1967.
Tracks 1, 2 & 9 were bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue; tracks 1–2 were previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane "Cosmic Music", while track 9 is a previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's "Expression".

Personnel

*Alice Coltrane — harp, piano
*Pharoah Sanders — flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
*Jimmy Garrison — bass
*Rashied Ali — drums
*Ben Riley — drums

External links

* [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=bf&src=his&pid=9581 "A Monastic Trio"] — Impulse! page