The best music writing isn’t nostalgia, It’s cultural archaeology — These books reclaim what music history left out ...

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The groundbreaking musician Alice Coltrane gets her first comprehensive biography, thanks to author Andy Beta.

Serene and soft-spoken, the late Alice Coltrane carried a regal disposition—a sphingine, ethereal air that infused her music and foreshadowed her repute as a true spiritual leader. Widowed in 1967 at ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

Get ready for a full day of deep dives and fresh perspectives honoring the legendary Alice Coltrane. Artists, scholars, and musicians—including Courtney Bryan, Timothy Anne Burnside, Erin Christovale, ...

When the Detroit Jazz Festival opens on Aug. 30 with a concert titled “Translinear Light: The Music of Alice Coltrane,” Brandee Younger will play a newly restored Lyon & Healy harp with a ...

In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in acts of spirit and will. Alice Coltrane, 1970. In February 1971, Alice Coltrane released her ...

In 1972, Alice Coltrane moved her family from New Jersey to California with the goal of building an ashram. Settling in Agoura Hills, the jazz virtuoso and Hindu spiritual leader led a faith-based ...