At its best, music is a reflection of who we are, where we've been and where we're going. It transcends classification and, instead, becomes something personal, a powerful force that paints a clear ...

Already a certifiable rara avis considering that only a handful of dates had been scheduled for this tour featuring Alice Coltrane and her quartet, an Ann Arbor audience was additionally blessed with ...

Alice Coltrane's "Translinear Light" is not an album for cynics. Its spiritual themes -- whether Hindu, Christian or the more secular visions of modern jazz -- are offered up without a trace of irony.

FOR many years Alice Coltrane, wife of the late John Coltrane, was afforded a kind of pariah, almost Yoko-esque status in the minds of most serious jazz beards. In the late 1960s the jazz media were ...

Alice Coltrane's album is a musical, spiritual progression, she tells Stuart Nicholson. Unperturbed by the weight she carries on her shoulders, Alice Coltrane, the widow of tenor saxophonist John ...

Ravi Coltrane was born on Long Island. But any time the jazz saxophonist plays in Detroit, it’s a bit of a homecoming. That’s because his late mother, musician and spiritual activist Alice Coltrane ...

The last time Alice Coltrane released an album, Jim Callaghan was Prime Minister, the streets were full of rubbish as the Winter of Discontent took hold and Boney M scored a Christmas number one with ...