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Electrifying and transcendent, this previously unreleased set captures the legendary harpist at a pivotal point in her career

Today, The John & Alice Coltrane Home and the Coltrane Family, in partnership with Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival, Hammer Museum, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, The New York Historical Society, and many more, have declared 2024-2025 to be THE YEAR OF ALICE, celebrating the extensive life work of spiritual leader, composer, and musician Alice Coltrane.

From Elvis Presley to John Prine to Lauryn Hill to Billie Eilish, here are the 100 greatest debut albums of all time.

From Led Zeppelin to The Byrds to Loretta Lynn to The Supremes to Nick Drake, here our the greatest debut albums of the 1960s, ranked.

The legendary saxophonist was a key figure in the spiritual jazz movement

The jazz world is heralding A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, a document of John Coltrane performing his masterpiece in 1965. But the story is bigger than Trane: It involves his friend who recorded it, Joe Brazil — and a dogged archivist trying to bring his story into the light.

Oh and Sorey arent mere collaborators or accompanists; theyre educators and composers in their own rights. Of Soreys drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Ohs bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, its like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trios first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and stand...