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• Released in 1973, Lord of Lords was Alice Coltrane’s final album for the Impulse! label, as well as the last instalment of a trilogy that began with Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy. Like its two predecessors, Lord of Lords features a 16-piece string orchestra that the leader arranged and conducted, fronted by a trio in which she plays piano, Wurlitzer organ, harp, and timpani accompanied by bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ben Riley.

  The original producer, Ed Michel, later stated that Coltrane worked with the top-rank classically-trained studio musicians of the string section and “opened them up so they could do absolutely astonishing things. Afterwards, the string players couldn’t believe that they had done what they had done.” According to AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek, “The interplay between the three principals