{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Huntington Ashram Monastery | type = Studio album | artist = Alice Coltrane | cover = Huntington Ashram Monastery (Alice Coltrane).jpg | alt = | released = 1969 | recorded = 14 May 1969 | venue = | studio = Coltrane home studios, Dix Hills, New York | genre = Post-bop, avant-garde jazz | length = 35:59 | label = Impulse! Records | producer = Alice Coltrane | prev_title = A Monastic Trio | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Ptah, the El Daoud | next_year = 1970 }} '''''Huntington Ashram Monastery''''' is the second solo album by Alice Coltrane. It was recorded in May 1969 at the Coltrane home studios in Dix Hills, New York, and was initially released later that year by John Coltrane Records, which was absorbed by Impulse! Records. On the album, Coltrane is heard on harp and piano, and is joined by bassist Ron Carter and drummer Rashied Ali.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/huntington-ashram-monastery-mw0000469584 |title=Alice Coltrane: Huntington Ashram Monastery |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/alice-coltrane/huntington-ashram-monastery |title=Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecoltranehome.org/music-of-the-home/albums-from-the-home |title=Albums from the Home |website=The John & Alice Coltrane Home |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/alice-coltrane-the-flowering-of-astral-jazz-by-chris-may |title=Alice Coltrane: The Flowering Of Astral Jazz |first=Chris |last=May |date=October 27, 2011 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref>
In 2011, Impulse! reissued the album, along with ''World Galaxy'', as part of a compilation titled ''Huntington Ashram Monastery/World Galaxy''.<ref name="Jurek">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/huntington-ashram-monastery-world-galaxy-mw0002242624 |title=Alice Coltrane: Huntington Ashram Monastery/World Galaxy |first=Thom |last=Jurek |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/alice-coltrane/huntington-ashram-monasteryworld-galaxy(compilation) |title=Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery/World Galaxy |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic" /> }} The AllMusic review awarded the album 4 stars.<ref name="allmusic" /> Thom Jurek noted Coltrane's "majestically meditative harp" on the first half of the album, and remarked that her piano playing on the second half "bring[s] the free jazz component into focus."<ref name="Jurek"/>
Regarding the pieces featuring harp, Chris M. Slawecki of All About Jazz wrote that they "pivot their internal (meditative) and external (exploratory) faces upon the fulcrum of Carter's repetitive, throbbing bass, even though their swirling movements and rhythms, especially from Coltrane's harp, sound static, nearly floating." He stated that, on the works with piano, the instrument's "less heavenly, more temporal sound seems to root them in more earthly styles," and noted that "the spiritual overtones, and multiplicity and sheer volume of her notes" invite comparison with McCoy Tyner.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/huntington-ashram-monastery-world-galaxy-alice-coltrane-impulse-review-by-chris-m-slawecki |title=Alice Coltrane: : Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy |first=Chris M. |last=Slawecki |date=December 18, 2012 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref> ''AAJ'''s Chris May called the recording a "beautiful, sumptuous album," and wrote that, for the most part, it "suggests rather than delivers astral jazz," noting that "the root of the music is straight-ahead."<ref name="aaj" />
Author Max Brzezinski singled out "Turiya" for praise, and stated that it "produces mesmeric effects." He commented: "It suspends the listener in a cloud of lush textures, as each instrumentalist begins pursuing their own slow tempos, improvising until they find a shared sense of time... 'Turiya' doesn't develop in the traditional sense so much as it experiments with endless variations on a theme."<ref>{{cite book |last=Brzezinski |first=Max |title=Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now |publisher=Running Press |year=2020 }}</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by Alice Coltrane #"Huntington Ashram Monastery" – 5:36 #"Turiya" – 4:22 #"Paramahansa Lake" – 4:37 #"Via Sivanandagar" – 6:09 #"IHS" ("I Have Suffered") – 8:50 #"Jaya Jaya Rama" – 6:25
==Personnel== *Alice Coltrane – harp (tracks 1–3), piano (tracks 4–6) *Ron Carter – bass *Rashied Ali – drums
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Category:1969 albums Category:Alice Coltrane albums Category:Impulse! Records albums Category:Albums produced by Alice Coltrane