Cosmic Music The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice ColtraneAuthor: Andy Beta The first full length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow. Alice Coltrane (1937 2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her lifeand even in the decades since her passingshe was