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    First Listen: 'The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda'

    Stream a compilation of cosmically scaled, rarely heard sounds from a largely unheralded master.
    by Anastasia Tsioulcas Apr 27, 2017 3 minutes
    <em>The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda </em>is out May 5.

    Multi-instrumentalist, composer, spiritual leader and the wife of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937-2007) long stood in her husband's shadow. Some certain number of more casual jazz fans, if they have known her name at all, only know it from sidewoman credits on some of his albums, and not for her own performances and recordings.

    But even many more ardent fans who know her string of recordings for Impulse and Warner Bros. in the 1970s don't know the music she

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