Alice Coltrane Was Not A Saint, And We’ll Lose Touch With Her Music If We Make Her One

“Alice Coltrane, despite having been one of John’s pianists, is maneuvered into the margins by subgenre euphemisms like ‘spiritual jazz,’ by which many mean, music for hippies and poets, while mainstream jazz is for men who read Esquire and smoke performative cigars on business trips.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

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