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Jacqueline Crooks: ‘Toni Morrison’s voice made me want to find my own’

The novelist on learning empathy from Charles Dickens, the playfulness of Irenosen Okojie and avoiding Jane Austen

The Guardian - UK

Books that fill in music's missing pages

The best music writing isn’t nostalgia, It’s cultural archaeology — These books reclaim what music history left out

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‘She sounded like the cosmos breathing’: David Byrne, Flying Lotus and more on the greatness of Alice Coltrane

The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champion her experimental sound

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Musician and film-maker Flying Lotus: ‘The whole lo-fi beats thing has become like Starbucks music’

Ahead of a new EP, the creative polymath answers your questions on Thom Yorke, Kendrick Lamar and how a sci-fi epic ate up his whole life

The Guardian - UK

Jack DeJohnette death: Jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis dies aged 83

He worked with musicians including Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Herbie Hancock

The Independent UK

“A synthesizer enhances worship. When we use the synthesizer, we sing even more enthusiastically”: Exploring the link between spirituality and synthesizers

Why has the synth has become a key navigational aid for those seeking deeper truths?

MusicRadar

Our Annual Grandparents’ Guide to Today’s Pop Artists

If you grew up loving Dylan, Coltrane or other great artists, here are some modern musicians that tap into similar styles and spirits. Check out our playlist.

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‘Tragedy to transcendence’: Alice Coltrane exhibit honors jazz legend’s sonic and spiritual legacy

Monument Eternal at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum showcases the life, music and writing of the groundbreaking artist also known as Turiya

The Guardian - US

“It pretty much half killed us. Whether the band would continue was in the balance”: The Radiohead album that almost broke up the band, turned the music industry on its head - and became their best record

“It’s our classic album - our Transformer, our Revolver, our Hunky Dory”

MusicRadar

One to watch: Jane Paknia

Inspired by Alice Coltrane, Sophie and a certain Muppet, the New York musician lives out her dream on an addictive second EP

The Guardian - UK

“It pretty much half killed us. Whether the band would continue was very much in the balance”: The Radiohead album that almost broke up the band, turned the music industry on its head - and became their best record

“It’s our classic album - our Transformer, our Revolver, our Hunky Dory”

MusicRadar

Surya Botofasina: Ashram Sun review – Alice Coltrane-inspired expression of nature’s glory

Sat between jazz, ambient and devotional music, the California artist evokes a pastoral wonderland – but disrupts it with surprising, volatile bursts of sound

The Guardian - UK

From The Beast to The Acolyte: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

George MacKay and Léa Seydoux star in a epoch-traversing sci-fi romance, while the latest Star Wars spin-off has a mystery-thriller twist

The Guardian - UK

‘The spirits of my ancestors empower me’: jazz great Idris Ackamoor on Afrofuturism, activism and André 3000

A musical seeker since childhood, the 73-year-old’s journeys have taken him from lessons with Cecil Taylor to a formative tour of Africa and now work with the Outkast star. He explains why he’s still chasing the next chapter

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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2023

There was soothing minimalism and bowel-quaking low end as Neil Gaiman got some wonderfully quizzical accompaniments and Manchester’s answer to Sun Ra freaked out

The Guardian - UK

André 3000 on his surprise flute album: ‘It’s pure excitement – like a child seeing bubbles for the first time’

As one half of Outkast, he helped invent southern hip-hop, sold 20m records and won six Grammys. So why is his debut solo album a rap-free epic of new age and ambient music for woodwind?

The Guardian - UK

Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me

A contemporary of Alice Coltrane’s, Ashby mixed genres and broke down musical barriers. Now I am proud to be bringing some of her unreleased music to audiences for the first time

The Guardian - UK

Cheick Tidiane Seck: Kelena Fôly review – deeply human vocals and piano from a Malian master

The musician’s gravelly baritone transmits a lifetime’s experience on an adventurous album that embraces imperfection

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Bill Callahan’s listening diary: ‘My daughter makes me listen to Harry Styles 20 times in a row’

The US songwriter guides us through a few days in sounds, from his son’s love of the Hamster Dance to Texas’s local Mexican radio stations and Traxman

The Guardian - UK

Pharoah Sanders obituary

US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

The Guardian - UK

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

Los Angeles Times

Pharoah Sanders, legendary jazz musician, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

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