Coltrane, Alice

***A first-time-on-CD reissue of the incredible final official album from one of jazz's most spiritual composers ALICE COLTRANE. Originally released by Warner Bros. in 1978 as a double-LP, Transfiguration is a performance recorded live at UCLA, April 16th the same year. A deeply spiritual, but definitely jazz performance that hearkens back to her earliest work, featuring Coltane on piano and organ, REGGIE WORKMAN on bass and ROY HAYNES on drums. Includes several of her own compositions as well as her late husband JOHN COLTRANE's "Leo," and the tune "Prema" which features an overdubbed string section comprised of NOEL POINTER, MURRAY ADLER, SHERWYN HIRBOD, MICHELLE SITA COLTRANE, and JAY ROSEN (violins), PAMELA GOLDSMITH and JANICE FORD (violas), and RAY KELLY and CHRISTINA KING (cellos).