Eternity (Alice Coltrane album)

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album a full 4 stars and called it "an unexpectedly good introduction to Turiya's musical philosophy.

"[4] Writing for WQXR, James Bennett II commented: "listening to Eternity feels like one is putting in effortless meditative work... Across these six tracks there is a unifying theme: the journey... Each piece is trying to find itself — the music isn't wandering because it's lost.

"[6] Jennifer Lucy Allan of The Guardian stated that the album is "short and lacks the coherence of her other releases," but praised "Spiritual Eternal", writing: "the huge Wurlitzer solo swaddled in strings, like the theme tune to someone parading down a palatial staircase in a silken gown... What swing!

"[7] In an article for Spectrum Culture, Daniel Bromfield noted that the album was "experimental in terms of Coltrane putting her new tools to the test on wax for the first time," but remarked: "It's meant to be a Sketches of Spain sort of thing, but... that organ sound is better when it does the bulk of the sonic load-bearing.

"[9] The Vinyl District's Joseph Neff stated that Coltrane's playing is "as gorgeous as ever," and noted that "the record's most impressive quality lies in how seamlessly everything unwinds, the flow serving to nicely deflate the theory that this strain of '70s progressive jazz was unfocused and undisciplined.