ALICE COLTRANE - Transfiguration DLP Folk featuring drummer Roy Haynes and

featuring drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Reggie Workman

With its rapid-fire transpositions of short figures

and the unrelenting support of Haynes and Workman

in April 1978

her playing evokes the time spent in her late husband John Coltrane’s band and the avant-garde music of her earlier years

ALICE COLTRANE - Transfiguration DLP Folk featuring drummer Roy Haynes andBy the late 70s, Alice Coltrane had largely gravitated away from jazz, incorporating Hindu chants and hymns into her music to reflect a newfound sense of creative omnipotence. However, in April 1978, she would return to her roots, performing at University of California, Los Angeles to make her first and only live album. Transfiguration, featuring drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Reggie Workman, showcases Alices many compositional talents and fierce