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Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert At the threshold of the sacred and the secular, in February of 1971 the pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane released Journey in Satchidananda before embarking on a live performance at Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit for her favourite swami's Integral Yoga Institute. The singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and The Rascals were also on...

Around the age of fourteen or fifteen when I began to spend every other high school lunch break on a discursion around town, scouring Borders and a plethora of secondhand record stores for CDs and other cultural bric-à-brac, my first introduction to the music of Billie Holiday came by way of Proper Records and their four-disc box sets. Whatever...

Since her last solo album Black Origami - which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in the spring of 2017 - the Indiana composer Jlin produced scores for new dances by the choreographers Wayne McGregor and Kyle Abraham, wrote Perspective for the Chicago-based...