Reflection on Creation and Space (A Five Year View)

by Alice Coltrane

Reflection on Creation and Space (A Five Year View) cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:20:41
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Tracing the profound artistic journey undertaken following her husband's death, this compilation surveys the harpist and pianist's deeply transcendent tenure with Impulse! Records. The sweeping, Eastern-influenced orchestrations and intense, meditative improvisations represent an absolute peak of the spiritual jazz movement.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, hindu

Tracklist

  1. Blue Nile (7:01)
  2. The Sun (4:04)
  3. Galaxy Around Olodumare (4:15)
  4. Galaxy In Turiya (9:54)
  5. Journey In Satchidananda (6:36)
  6. Galaxy In Satchidananda (10:18)
  7. Battle At Armageddon (7:19)
  8. Lovely Sky Boat (6:54)
  9. A Love Supreme (10:04)
  10. Sri Rama Ohnedaruth (6:11)
  11. Andromeda's Suffering (9:04)
  12. I Want To See You (6:46)
  13. Sita Ram (4:45)
  14. Oh Allah (4:52)
  15. The Firebird (5:40)

Credits

  • Charlie Haden - bass
  • Jimmy Garrison - bass
  • Reggie Workman - bass
  • Anne Goodman - cello
  • Edgar Lustgarten - cello
  • Jan Kelley - cello
  • Jerome Kessler - cello
  • Jesse Ehrlich - cello
  • Alice Coltrane - Primary Artist, Tambura [Tamboura]
  • Joe Henderson - Alto Flute
  • Pharoah Sanders - Alto Flute, Percussion, Bells
  • Ron Carter - Bass
  • Chuck Stewart - Bells
  • Cecil McBee - Bass
  • Majid Shabazz - Bells, Tambourine
  • Tulsi - Tambura [Tamboura]
  • Swami Satchidananda - Narrator
  • Clifford Jarvis - Drums
  • Jack DeJohnette - Drums
  • John Blair - Violin
  • Julius Brand - Violin

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