Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Audio Books is a column focused on the latest books about music. Every month, Grant Sharples sits down with authors, journalists, ...

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

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 ...

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Musical virtuoso, record executive, wife, and mother. Then widow. Then spiritual guru. Then creative innovator. Then author. Then all of that and more. Alice Coltrane (1937–2007) mourned the ...

The breathtaking music of Alice Coltrane has the power to stop listeners in their tracks and guide them to another realm of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I remember her coming up in Detroit, where I’m from,” the pianist Geri Allen told me ...

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.

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 Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader, and the wife of jazz legend John ...