Friday, April 3, 2026

Hare Krishna (Alice Coltrane)


The obsession with Alice Coltrane continues. We are exploring more of her later music which is often not jazz at all. But "Hare Krishna" has a hypnotic charm that seems to draw more from African American gospel elements than the lyrics suggest. With its lilting rhythms and what is a presumably (and largely) African American choir from Coltrane's Vedantic Center, one can see that Coltrane never fully left behind her roots. 

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