Andy Beta kept waiting for a full biography on Alice Coltrane to come out. He waited for months, then years, for it to materialize, but that moment never arrived. Eventually, he realized that if no ...

Beta’s first book, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, unpacks the legacy of John Coltrane’s wife — an innovator in her own right. Beta’s first book, Cosmic Music: 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 ...

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 ...