Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow.

Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life-and even in the decades since her passing-she was primarily known as the widow of the late John Coltrane...