Jessi Colter and Lenny Kaye, terrific! I could have put this in the Avante-Garde thread. Not quite Alice Coltrane and too structured for John, however the destination is similar. Perhaps more “New Morning” and Mary Lou Williams than T.S Monk. I can assure you this isn’t what you think it is.
“AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The plainspoken title The Psalms may suggest a straightforward gospel album, but this 2017 album is anything but straightforward. Jessi Colter recorded The Psalms with Lenny Kaye, the guitarist best known for his collaboration with Patti Smith. The pair became acquainted when Kaye was assisting Colter's late husband Waylon Jennings in writing his autobiography and, during this time, the writer discovered that the singer would often sit at her piano and improvise melodies to passages from the Book of Psalms. Convinced this was a great idea for an album, Kaye held two sessions in 2007 and 2008 -- not long after Colter released the Don Was-produced Out of the Ashes -- and then he spent the next several years augmenting the spare sketches with tastefully chosen musicians. The result is striking, unlike anything Jessi Colter has ever released: it's hushed and haunting, an elegiac testimonial to the power of enduring faith.“
