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 ...
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 ...
Serene and soft-spoken, the late Alice Coltrane carried a regal disposition—a sphingine, ethereal air that infused her music and foreshadowed her repute as a true spiritual leader. Widowed in 1967 at ...