Eternity

Eternity is an album by Alice Coltrane. It was recorded in August through October, 1975, and was released in 1976 by Warner Records, her first release with the label. On the album, Coltrane is joined by ensembles of varying size. It was Coltrane's first album following both her move to California and her decision to become a monastic. Reception In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek praised Coltrane's "ability to open up her own sonic vocabulary and seamlessly create an ensemble context for to deliver an unpredictable expression of her vision of harmonic convergence," and wrote: "Eternity is ultimately about the universality of tonal language and its complex expressions. It is an enduring recording that was far ahead of its time in 1976 and is only now getting the recognition it deserves." The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, and called it "an unexpectedly good introduction to Turiya's musical philosophy."