Monument Eternal [Hardcover]

In her book, Alice Coltranes personal pathfrom darkness to light, from sacrifice to physical and spiritual well-beingis what matters most. That, and an abiding sense of discovery, divine bliss, and individual purpose: the idea of fitting into the matrix, of being part of the plan . . .? This slender volumean archetypal account of wrestling with cosmic forces first published in 1977 and now reissued with a foreword by music journalist Ashley Kahnoffers an essential key to Coltranes often overlooked yet profound and fascinating life and work. This is the founding document of a personal religion, and a rendering of grief hung among the stars. Great music lifts us off this plane of existence to a higher level of transcendence and love. Alice Coltrane is a sonic guru who here uses prose to help us understand her journey and show a path to join her there. In the past two decades, Alice Coltranes significance has been rightly elevated into the highest echelons of the jazz pantheon, where her influence is now often mentioned in the same breath as her husbands. In the ten years that followed [John Coltranes death], Alice Coltrane released about a dozen albums . . . many of them masterpieces that imagine a meeting point between jazz and psychedelic rock, gospel traditions and Indian devotional music . . . Sometime in the late 1960sthe exact date is unclearshe plunged into a depression. In her book?