Ptah, the El Daoud
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| Studio album by Alice Coltrane | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 26 January 1970 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 46:03 | |||
| Label | Impulse! Records | |||
| Producer | Ed Michel | |||
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Ptah, the El Daoud [1970] is the third solo album by Alice Coltrane.
This was Coltrane's first album with horns (aside from one track on A Monastic Trio [1968], on which Pharoah Sanders played bass clarinet). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout.
All the compositions were written by Coltrane. The title track is named for the Egyptian god Ptah, "the El Daoud" meaning "the beloved". "Turiya", according to the liner notes, "was defined by Alice as 'a state of consciousn ess — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while "Ramakrishna" was a 19th-century Bengali religious figure; this track omits the horns. On "Blue Nile" Coltrane switches from piano to harp, and Sanders and Henderson from tenor saxophones to alto flutes.
The album's cover design was by Jim Evans.
All tracks recorded at the Coltrane home studio in Dix Hills, New York on 26 January 1970.
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