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ARTIST
TITLE
Transfiguration
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
VMP 2230LP VMP 2230LP
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RELEASE DATE
12/20/2024

"Recorded live at a UCLA concert hall in April 1978 and released on Warner Bros, Coltrane plays piano and organ accompanied by Roy Haynes on drums and Reggie Workman on bass. The trio conjures both a universe and a universal consciousness; Coltrane has no qualms with the commingling of exhilaration and asceticism it demands of listeners. In fact, she demands that you come closer, to its tone and to your natural self. What this feels like in one aspect is Black music's Bonnie and Clyde fantasy realized. Alice and John were both fugitives from received values and ideas that felt too limiting, and their shared refuge was this sound that can only culminate in the spirit displacing and becoming the body through a series of collective gestures made both into song and a live ritual as is this album. There are very few pieces in the so-called American Songbook with stakes this high and encompassing in their insistence on transformation. One is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, another, Transfiguration. Black color double vinyl in direct-to-board, double gatefold jacket. Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. Listening notes booklet by Harmony Holiday."