Alice Coltrane and No Wave’s overlooked women step out of the margins

The best music writing isn’t nostalgia, It’s cultural archaeology — These books reclaim what music history left out ...
WUSF Public Media

'Speakeasies to Symphonies' and 'Cosmic Music' chronicle 2 jazz greats

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.
Forbes

‘The Year Of Alice’ Coltrane Continues At Hammer Museum In Los Angeles

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 ...
W magazine

In a New Museum Show, Alice Coltrane Steps Into the Light

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 ...
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, ...