Alice Coltrane’s 1971 album Journey in Satchidananda is among the most acclaimed free jazz albums. Upon its release, the influential jazz journal Down Beat proclaimed it to be “sacred jazz of the ...

The harpist, composer and bandleader plays it on her latest album, “Gadabout Season,” a persuasive argument for the vast potential of her instrument. Brandee Younger’s new album coalesced around a ...

Today, I'm going to talk about John Coltrane based purely on my own personal biases and subjectivity! I'm open to ...

Matador has announced its plans to release four Alice Coltrane albums, all of which were recorded at the late musician’s Los Angeles ashram in the 1980s and 1990s and, until now, largely unavailable ...

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 ...

Journey in Satchidananda; Shiva-Loka; Africa; Leo. Alice Coltrane: harp, percussion; Pharoah Sanders: soprano saxophone, flute, fife, percussion; Archie Shepp ...

Alice Coltrane was far more than the critically underrated pianist in the fiercely free, later-day quartet of her legendary saxophonist husband, John Coltrane. She was a true musical visionary. She ...

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 ...