Alice Coltranes 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 wasnt released at the time
Alices 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 gala concert was a fundraiser for Swami Satchidanandas Integral Yoga Institute, and was one of two halves with the first two transcendental tunes by Alice taken from the album she had just released on Impulse! and then two explosive tunes by her late husband John Coltrane.
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.
Package includes essays by Lauren Du Graf and Alices producer Ed Michel