Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert 2CD

Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert

• Alice Coltrane’s “The Carnegie Hall Concert” is a previously unreleased recording of a historic 1971 concert
• The original multi-track recording was commissioned by Impulse Records but wasn’t released at the time
• Alice’s first performance as a leader at Carnegie Hall
• All-star group including Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, Ed Blackwell and others
• The concert was a fundraiser for Swami Satchidananda’s Integral Yoga Institute
• A triple bill placing her in the company of Laura Nyro and The Rascals
• Concert produced by Sid Bernstein, who promoted the first Beatles concert in the US
• Recorded in quadraphonic and decoded to stereo for this release, mastered/cut by Kevin Reeves and presented on 2-LP gatefold
• Package includes essays by Lauren Du Graf and Alice’s producer Ed Michel