Ptah, the El Daoud

Recorded on 26 January 1970 in the basement of the Coltrane home, with Pharoah Sanders on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left. Coltrane plays piano, and harp on Blue Nile, where both saxophonists switch to alto flute. She called Henderson the more intellectual player and Sanders the more abstract and transcendental. Ptah is the Egyptian creator god of Memphis, and El Daoud is Arabic for the beloved. In Leonard Feather's liner notes she said she wanted to bring out a feeling of purification.

AllMusic gave it four and a half stars, and the Penguin Guide called the title track a rippling essay in transcendence. After 1974 it had no official vinyl reissue until 2022, when Verve By Request and Third Man Records pressed it in Detroit.