Universal Consciousness was the fifth solo album released by Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane, née McLeod was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.-Biography:...

 in 1972 on Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...

. It was re-released on CD in 2002.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is art of the highest order, conceived by a brilliant mind, poetically presented in exquisite collaboration by divinely inspired musicians and humbly offered as a gift to listeners. It is a true masterpiece".

Track listing

1. "Universal Consciousness" 5:06
2. "Battle at Armageddon" 7:20
3. "Oh Allah" 5:00
4. "Hare Krishna" 8:14
5. "Sita Ram" 4:47
6. "The Ankh of Amen-Ra" 6:09

Recorded at A&R Recording, New York City and/or at the Coltrane Studio, Dix Hills, New York

Personnel

• Alice Coltrane
  Alice Coltrane
  Alice Coltrane, née McLeod was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.-Biography:...
  
   — harp, organ
• Jimmy Garrison
  Jimmy Garrison
  Jimmy Garrison was an American jazz double bassist born in Miami, Florida. He was best known through his long association with John Coltrane from 1961–1967.-Biography:...
  
   - bass (1,3,4,5)
• Jack DeJohnette
  Jack DeJohnette
  Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
  
   - drums (1,3,4)
• Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer.After studying at Berklee in the 1950s he established himself in jazz between 1959 and 1966 by recording with Chet Baker, Randy Weston, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Jackie McLean, and Elmo Hope, and playing with Grant...
  
   - drums (4,5), percussion (4)
• Rashied Ali
  Rashied Ali
  Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...
  
   - drums (2,6), wind chimes (6)
• Tulsi - tamboura (4,5)
• John Blair, Julius Brand, Leroy Jenkins, Joan Kalisch - violin (1,3,4)

String arrangements on tracks 1,3 and 4 by Alice Coltrane.
Tracks 4 and 5 arranged by Alice Coltrane.
Transcriptions on tracks 1,3 and 4 by Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....

Producers: Alice Coltrane & Ed Michel.
Engineers at Dix Hills: W. Barneke and Roy Musgnug.
Engineer at A&R: Tony May.
Mixed by Tony May and Ed Michel.

External links

• The Wire's
  The Wire (magazine)
  The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...
  
  100 Records That Set The World On Fire (When No One Was Listening)
• Alice Coltrane Discography