A Monastic Trio

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A Monastic Trio
A Monastic Trio cover
Studio album by Alice Coltrane
Released 1968
Recorded 1967–1968
Genre Jazz
Length 66:43
Label Impulse! Records
Producer(s) Alice Coltrane
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Alice Coltrane chronology
A Monastic Trio
(1968)		 Huntington Ashram Monastery
(1969)


A Monastic Trio is the first solo album by Alice Coltrane. Recorded in 1968 (the reissue includes one track from 1967), she intended it a tribute to her husband, John Coltrane, who had died the year before.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Lord, Help Me to Be"
  2. "The Sun"
  3. "Ohnedaruth"
  4. "Gospel Trane"
  5. "I Want to See You"
  6. "Lovely Sky Boat"
  7. "Oceanic Beloved"
  8. "Atomic Peace"
  9. "Altruvista"

Tracks 1–3 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 29, 1968; tracks 4–8 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on June 6, 1968; track 9 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 7, 1967.
Tracks 1, 2 & 9 were bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue; tracks 1–2 were previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane Cosmic Music, while track 9 is a previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's Expression.

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