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.

The Coltrane legacy in jazz is vast and monumentally influential—that is a known quantity in the music world. So much of that legacy is filled with the artistic resonance of John Coltrane, whose ...

When the Detroit Jazz Festival opens on Aug. 30 with a concert titled “Translinear Light: The Music of Alice Coltrane,” Brandee Younger will play a newly restored Lyon & Healy harp with a ...

Alice Coltrane, a keyboardist, harpist and composer who also managed the legacy of her late husband John Coltrane, died Friday of respiratory failure. She was 69. Coltrane, who died in West Hills, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To say that we've been waiting 26 years, since her last commercial release, Transfiguration, for Alice Coltrane to return to the serene "Eastern" astral jazz which she and Pharoah Sanders developed in ...