World Galaxy (SHM-CD)

Limited vinyl LP repressing of this 1972 album. Alice Coltrane had become a musical world unto herself by the time she issued World Galaxy, recorded in late 1971. With jazz-rock fusion taking over the mainstream and the terminal avant-garde heading over to Europe, Coltrane stubbornly forged an insistent, ever-evolving brand of spiritual jazz that bore her own signature as much as it did her late husband's influence. The album includes musical assistance from Reggie Workman, Ben Riley, Elyan Jones, Frank Lowe, Swami Satchidananda and Leroy Jenkins. Alice Coltrane was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer, and the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s.