Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Joe Henderson – Ptah, The El Daoud
Label: | Impulse! – AS-9196, ABC Records – AS-9196 |
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Country: | US |
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Genre: | Jazz |
Style: | Avant-garde Jazz, Modal |
Tracklist
A1 | Ptah, The El Daoud | 13:58 | |
A2 | Turiya & Ramakrishna | 8:19 | |
B1 | Blue Nile | 6:58 | |
B2 | Mantra | 16:33 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Coltrane Studio
- Copyright © – ABC/Dunhill Records
- Mastered At – Longwear Plating
- Published By – Jowcol Music
Credits
- Bass – Ron Carter
- Design – The Institute For Better Vision
- Drums – Ben Riley
- Engineer – W.L. Barneke
- Liner Notes – Leonard Feather
- Photography By, Bells [Occasional] – Chuck Stewart
- Piano, Harp – Alice Coltrane
- Producer – Ed Michel
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute – Joe Henderson
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bells – Pharoah Sanders
Notes
This is the first pressing. Released October 1970. The "single box" logo was phased out by November 1970, so all subsequent repressings have the two-box logo and ® tag.
Some crucial information here:
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/alice-coltrane-ptah-the-el-daoud-1970-impulse-original/
On the center labels:
• The Impulse! and ABC Records logos are in a connected rainbow-colored box without the double ® (registration symbols) used on later pressings.
• Text along bottom edge: A Product of ABC Records, Inc. New York, N.Y. 10019 • Made in USA
Cover has a sticker with "Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson"
Gatefold jacket. Most copies have sticker stating "Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson" affixed to front cover.
© Copyright MCMLXX, ABC/Dunhill Records.
Recorded in the studio at the Coltrane home, Dix Hills, New York, January 26, 1970.
Some crucial information here:
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/alice-coltrane-ptah-the-el-daoud-1970-impulse-original/
On the center labels:
• The Impulse! and ABC Records logos are in a connected rainbow-colored box without the double ® (registration symbols) used on later pressings.
• Text along bottom edge: A Product of ABC Records, Inc. New York, N.Y. 10019 • Made in USA
Cover has a sticker with "Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson"
Gatefold jacket. Most copies have sticker stating "Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson" affixed to front cover.
© Copyright MCMLXX, ABC/Dunhill Records.
Recorded in the studio at the Coltrane home, Dix Hills, New York, January 26, 1970.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Side A label): AS-9196-A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B label): AS-9196-B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): AS-9196-A LW
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): AS-9196-B LW
Other Versions (5 of 30)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | Ptah, The El Daoud (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Impulse!, ABC Records | AS-9196 | US | 1970 | ||
New Submission | Ptah, The El Daoud (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Impulse!, ABC Records | AS-9196 | Canada | 1970 | ||
New Submission | Ptah, The El Daoud (8-Track Cartridge, Album, Stereo) | Impulse!, ABC Records | M 89196 | US | 1970 | ||
New Submission | Ptah, The El Daoud (8-Track Cartridge, Album, Stereo, Blue Cartridge) | Impulse!, ABC Records | V 8027-9196 | US | 1970 | ||
Ptah, The El Daoud (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Impulse!, ABC Records | AS-9196 | US | 1971 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- I play one that’s VG+( closer to near mint ) and it’s sounds incredible!! It’s Quiet throughout. An OG press and a trophy piece!
- How is the quality of the original press? Wondering if I should save up and hunt one down or just get the reissue.
- Even beat to shit OG's of this album are astronomically expensive. The AAA third man reissue coming out will likely look and sound better than any OG you can get your hands on … An OG is nice ego stroke but not really worth it....
- Official re-issue release date 11/11. About 30 bucks. Most major and indie stores have them up for pre-order now. Amazon's here: shorturl.at/bfgor
- Edited 2 years agoUno de mis primeros discos de jazz lo encontré en una tienda de segunda por poco menos de $10 sin duda unos de mis mejores hallazgo
- If anyone has just a cover for sale message me. I found the lp at a local record store for 3 bucks but it was in a generic white sleeve
- Edited 3 years agoTo be sure, this is a delightful odd album, due to Joe Henderson’s attributions being laid down on the left channel and those of Pharoah Sanders being recorded to the right channel, an entirely unexpected sonic experience.
While the Coltrane name will be forever linked with John Coltrane, Alice is a force to be recorded with in her own right. Being an atheist, it was rather difficult for me to get into this record, as I consider it to be a religious outing, where I’ve always felt the the beauty found here was designed with the aspect of conversion deeply held within these grooves. She begin following the teachings of guru Swami Satchidanada, moving to California in the early 70s and establishing the Vedantic Center, a centre for the study and practice of Hindu philosophy, which is where this presentation was recorded. This all of course means that I look at this recording as spiritualized jazz, where the music is designed around a meditative and an enlightenment adventure.
Had it not been for the religious ramifications I would suggest that this album is nothing short of brilliant, a welcomed breath of fresh air, a newly opened door into the world of jazz. Certainly the Beatles inspired these mystical visions, though quickly (except for George) got of this one way train to nowhere. That said, during this time period, black Americans were discovering their own pride, their African roots, looking toward Egypt as a source of answers and inspiration. With others claiming that Ptah, the El Daoud has an inner luminosity that transcends its performances, as well as the composition, that the album is capable of capturing, or perhaps contouring transportive passages for the listeners, it is exactly this attitude that keeps me from being devoted to the release, where I sincerely wish that I was not so keenly aware of its backstory, where I could simply drop myself into these luscious modern jazz tunes and get lost.
On a whole, the music is entirely accessible and nearly mesmerizing, all without being overbearing or monotonous, and while I’d like to infer that album is improvisation, to my ears, it somewhat just doesn’t cross that line. I would say that the record is a unexpected study in contrasts, though while not haphazard, these contrasts for some reason appear to be a recognized afterthought, a justification for something that happened, though not as a sincere attribute of planning and vision. I would suggest that these inter-workings were a nearly DNA impression left on Alice from John Coltrane … though I may be hearing something others don’t, or I may just be incorrect. Either way, this is a very good and sumptuous atmospheric listen.
The biggest drawback to the original pressing, which I own, is that my copy is a bit technically (pressing wise) noisy, though I’ve heard a friend’s pressing that sound much better than mine, where the prices are just through the roof. Perhaps the most sad and distressing aspect is that Coltrane’s masters were destroyed in the Universal storage vault fire, meaning that any future albums will be digitized copies of some form of the master, so getting reissues (those created after the fire) is a vanity purchase only, where the compact disc will offer up a far better listen, with the 1996 German CD pressing being about the best. That said, it’s always been my desire to find a great pressing, though the dollars and the fact that I can’t ‘listen first’ have always held me back.
*** The Fun Facts: As to the alum’s title Ptah, the El Daoud, meaning ‘the beloved’ is dedicated to the Egyptian god Ptah, and is the first track on the album. Track two “Turiy and Ramakrishna” ‘Turiya’ defined by Coltrane as bing a state of high Nirvana consciousness, while ‘Ramakrisha’ is the 19th century Bengali religious figure.
Review by Jenell Kesler - Who in the hootenanny is in charge of vinyl reissues at Impulse / the Alice Coltrane estate? Repress already, you dullards! It's absurd!
- One of my favorite thrift store record finds! I was amazed when I found it especially considering how clean it is (Found in about 2010) Spacey with a hint of light free jazz. Even the cover art is great!
- Turiya & Ramakrishna is a spiritual odyssey, its difficult to explain the compassion and feeling being projected into words, just listen to this track alone and you may understand why this is my favorite Alice Coltrane track WOW what amazing music.
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