A Monastic Trio

Released — 1968
Recorded — 1967–1968
Length — 66:43
Label — Impulse! Records
Producer — Alice Coltrane

Personnel

Alice Coltrane — harp, piano
Pharoah Sanders — flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Jimmy Garrison — bass
Rashied Ali — drums
Ben Riley — drums

Track Listing

1 Lord, Help Me to Be
2 The Sun
3 Ohnedaruth
4 Gospel Trane
5 I Want to See You
6 Lovely Sky Boat
7 Oceanic Beloved
8 Atomic Peace
9 Altruvista

Tracks 1–3 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 29, 1968; tracks 4–8 recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on June 6, 1968; track 9 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 7, 1967.

Tracks 1, 2 & 9 were bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue; tracks 1–2 were previously released on the Alice Coltrane/John Coltrane Cosmic Music, while track 9 is a previously unissued recording from the sessions that resulted in John Coltrane's Expression.