ALICE COLTRANE HARP RECORD PLUS
Via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Includes unlimited streaming of Harp Improvisation The public is fortunate that it was recorded and now 30 years later it is being made available as a single, historical, rare harp performance. Alice Coltrane’s harp expression/cadenza was improvised, invented and shared with the audience at the Festival. She always said that “music is an expression”. She was constantly readjusting the tuning mostly through the pedals seeking the most consistent sound that it could make.Īs Alice Coltrane’s fingers deftly traveled over the strings creating sparkling notes of music that seem other worldly and ethereal, her signature sounds on harp could be heard emerging with each adjustment. The actual harp, as one can note from the video recording took a lot of effort on the part of Ms. After establishing herself as a canny bop and hard bop pianist on the fertile Detroit scene of the late 1950s, she studied with Bud Powell in Paris during the early '60s. Slawomir was a ardent fan of Alice Coltrane’s music and very instrumental in securing the invitation for her to play at the Jazz Jamboree Festival. Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda ('Turiya') was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, vocalist, and swamini. She was asked to lend it to Alice Coltrane by her friend the late jazz pianist Slawomir Kulpowicz. Which during the time Poland was under the communist system, was very hard to find.Īnna’s harp was taken to the venue as the only available and more playable harp in Warsaw. She awakened an interest in Radha about the harpthe beauty of its harmonics and the freedom of its motion. Alice Coltrane also gifted Radha with her first harp. Anna, said the harp had a great tone but was mechanically very hard to play, because it was not in very good shape but it was a pedal harp. During a two-decade long association, Radha Botofasina recorded four devotional albums with the late Alice Coltrane, her spiritual and musical mentor. Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana’s 1975 collaboration Illuminations (Vocalion) positively glows on this SACD reissue. It was made in Russia she had acquired it in a most unusual barter bags of white potatoes in exchange for a Russian pedal harp. On the 23rd of October 1987 in Warsaw, Poland at the Jazz Jamboree festival, Alice Coltrane played a improvised harp solo that lasted over 9 minutes. Alice Coltrane’s Harp performance in Warsaw,Poland.