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 ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. In 1971, jazz giant Alice Coltrane performed a now iconic show at New York’s ...

Patti Smith and Carlos Santana pay tribute to John Coltrane in excerpts from the book, 'Coltrane: The Definitive Visual ...

In 1972, Alice Coltrane moved her family from New Jersey to California with the goal of building an ashram. Settling in Agoura Hills, the jazz virtuoso and Hindu spiritual leader led a faith-based ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. Alice Coltrane, circa 1978. She died in ...

Coltrane changed the game in American music a few times over. Here’s a guided tour to his career, courtesy of 15 musicians, scholars, poets, writers and other experts. By Giovanni Russonello Yes, it’s ...

A spectacular concert at Highmark Mann Center in Philadelphia will honor saxophonist John Coltrane, marking what would have ...

The estate of legendary jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader John Coltrane will mark the 100th anniversary of the musician's birth with "Coltrane 100," a year-long global celebration including ...

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

For decades, Alice Coltrane occupied a peculiar annex in American music history: too spiritual for jazz orthodoxy, too disciplined for New Age culture, too cosmic for mainstream criticism and too ...