![]() ![]() ![]() I Want is a rather rambling track, rich in melodic content but with a tendency to become a little static. Garrison also performs creditably, although there are moments when Alice Coltrane’s strong chordal patterns duplicate the bass line. Ali, apart from a well constructed solo, plays the role of accompanist to the pianist. ![]() Gospel Trane is appropriately titled and is a piano trio in the old-fashioned sense. While the bubbling rococo runs in the lower register have the sound and the slightly metronomic timing of the former, the grainy tonal quality in the upper register has more in common with Coltrane. Ohnedaruth features Pharoah Sanders and here his bass clarinet sounds, at times, like Eric Dolphy and at others like latter-day Coltrane. Side one contains much good jazz, with Alice Coltrane playing with enough emotional involvement to disguise the lack of variety in her work. If, as the sleeve suggests, this album was intended as a musical epitaph to the late John Coltrane, it does him less than justice. ![]()
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