Cosmic Music by Alice and John Coltrane is composed of two of John’s pieces featuring Alice Coltrane on piano (the couple’s first studio recordings together which took place in California), and two of Alice’s compositions recorded at the Dix Hills studio. The Alice session took place January 29th, 1968 and produced “Lord Help Me to Be” and “The Sun” from this album as well as “Ohnedaruth,” which debuted later that year on her A Monastic Trio.
Far-reaching blues motifs and brave instrumental expressions by Alice on piano, Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Ben Riley on drums immortalized these recordings as essential Coltrane, and bestowed new life into John’s memory.
Cosmic Music was the first release on Coltrane Records and was later released again on Impulse!.
