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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...

In the sixties Slugs' in the outer margins of the East Village swiftly became one of the most notorious jazz dives in town, hosting everyone from avant-garde trailblazers like Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp to Art Blakey or Sonny Rollins while by the end of the decade the club would become a home away from home for Sun Ra....

By the summer of 1961, the indomitable saxophonist John Coltrane had established his first quartet and opened new harmonic expanses for jazz through his sheets of sound. As a leader for Atlantic, the cascades of 'Countdown' and 'Giant Steps' with its loping bassline and spirited cycle of chromatic thirds helmed his first iconic album and introduced what would become...