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Cosmic jazz stunner. This is one of those upper-crust LPs that easily holds down a spot in any seasoned selector s late night top ten – it s simply that timeless. From the first swirls of the title track, this record just carries you away. Each tune is built on a different hypnotic string bass groove that bores into your mind. Shiva-Loka, Stopover Bombay, take your pick. The tamboura (that s the metallic buzz that signals exotica in any B-movie) never lets up, and when Alice Coltrane flings some harp over it (or piano, in the case of Something About John Coltrane ), you ve got a powerful mystic brew indeed. As you’d expect, ace contributions from Cecil McBee, Rashied Ali and the great Pharoah Sanders, who even gets a Cuban Linx-style co-author mention on the front cover. Recommended.