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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
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Despite the bootleg status of this double LP set (you can't even sell it on Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/Alice..heater-1972/release/13701911),
The Wire magazine named it the fourth best archive release of 2019:
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Alice Coltrane Sextet
Live At The Berkeley Community Theater 1972
(BCT)
In spite of its somewhat dubious provenance, there's no denying that Live At The Berkeley Community Theater 1972 offered an enlightening glimpse of a truly tremendous outfit at work — Charlie Haden, Ben Riley, Ashish Khan, Pranesh Kahn, Bobby W and of course Alice Coltrane herself, putting in a powerful performance on Wurlitzer electric organ.
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Three of the critics who participated in the compilation of the list ("The Electorate") even named it their top archival release of the year. Never seen that happened before...
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/85382/spread/1
More power to us and extra thanks to the uploader, "sleeve", for liberating this number (the only one on the "BCT label", by the way).