• REPLAY: John Coltrane’s “Ascension” Turns 60

    REPLAY: John Coltrane’s “Ascension” Turns 60

    There is a story Alice Coltrane told of her husband John, who once descended from the staircase of their house holding the music “like Moses coming down from the mountain,” said Alice, for what would eventually become A Love Supreme. The record, famously, marks an artistic highpoint for John Coltrane,…

  • Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live): Review 

    Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live): Review 

    Showing another side of Alice Coltrane, “The Carnegie Hall Concert” captures fury There was, apparently, a time when a somewhat wide audience would routinely pay good money and pack huge venues to see some of the most awe-inspiring, boundary pushing, and artistically pioneering music around. As unbelievable as this widespread…