But, similar to how Coltrane herself transcended the physical plane through astral projection and dayslong meditation, Beta’s book transcends biography as a form. Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and ...

For decades, Alice Coltrane occupied a peculiar annex in American music history: too spiritual for jazz orthodoxy, too disciplined for New Age culture, too cosmic for mainstream criticism and too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1972, Alice Coltrane moved her family from New Jersey to California with the goal of building an ashram. Settling in Agoura ...

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 ...

Beta’s first book, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, unpacks the legacy of John Coltrane’s wife — an innovator in her own right. Beta’s first book, Cosmic Music: The ...

We asked writers, critics and musicians including Meshell Ndegeocello and Angel Bat Dawid to tell us what moves them in Coltrane’s spiritual jazz. By Marcus J. Moore For the past several years, New ...

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937 -2007) was the second wife of John Coltrane. Raising a family with him, she was also a fine pianist and replaced McCoy Tyner in Trane's quartet for a short time ...

On May 5, David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label will release a new Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda compilation called World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.

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 ...