Alice Coltrane’s 1971 concert at Carnegie Hall will be released in full for the first time, via Impulse! Out March 22, the live album presents Coltrane’s first Carnegie Hall performance as a leader, ...
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 ...
At times, tribute performances can feel stuffy — repeating the musical compositions from a particular artist without the flourishes, improvisations or specific tonal vernacular that makes each artist ...
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 ...