‘The significance of Alice Coltrane’s presence in 20th century music cannot be overstated. Andy Beta’s Cosmic Music is a remarkable detailing of this visionary woman’s vocation in devotion to a sanctified art. From her childhood playing piano in the community of Pentecostal and Baptist churches, where ecstatic transcendence was at the heart of practice, to her engagement with the Detroit Jazz scene, and finding a kindred spirit in a life shared with the great John Coltrane, her music expressed a timeless expression of both divinity and dignity’ (Thurston Moore).
‘Alice Coltrane was co-architect of some of the most spiritually profound and formally challenging music ever made. The way Andy Beta tells it, it is one of the greatest adventures of the 20th century’ (David Keenan).

‘If Alice had been the wife of a Detroit auto worker, she’d obviously be a nonentity’; ‘a sincere but vitally talentless lady who married the right man’ (Down Beat, 1977).

Hardback; 450 pages.
Thoroughly researched — wide-ranging and stuffed with interest — and clearly written, it’s a must!