To say that we've been waiting 26 years, since her last commercial release, Transfiguration, for Alice Coltrane to return to the serene "Eastern" astral jazz which she and Pharoah Sanders developed in ...

For the past six or seven years, it has become divorced from its radical roots to become the new Putumayo Music — a hip, vaguely “exotic” sound for well-to-do middle-aged white people to dabble in its ...