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.

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Following the death of her husband in '67, Alice Coltrane steadily recorded an album a year up until Transfiguration in 1978, a live session which consequently represents the culmination of her ...

The Sun; Lovely Sky Boat; Jaya Jaya Rama; Ptah The El Daoud; Journey In Satchidananda; Universal Consciousness; Excerpts From The Firebird; Translinear Light. Track 1 ...

Alice Coltrane spent the mid-Sixties in personal and musical bliss, starting a family with John Coltrane and touring the world as the pianist in his band. But everything changed for her in the summer ...

A week-long festival at Penn Live honors the legacy of the husband and wife team who developed spiritual jazz. A historical marker on 33rd Street identifies the home of jazz greats John and Alice ...

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 ...

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