Michelle Coltrane Discusses Her Mother, Musician & Spiritual Leader Alice Coltrane And Celebrate The Year Of Alice 2024-2025

The John & Alice Coltrane Home and the Coltrane Family, in partnership with Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival, Hammer Museum, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, The New York Historical Society, and many more, have declared 2024-2025 to be THE YEAR OF ALICE, celebrating the extensive life work of spiritual leader, composer, and musician Alice Coltrane.In addition to being an iconic and remarkably prolific musician, Mrs. Coltrane was a beloved and wise spiritual leader, a pragmatic person with a keen eye for business, and a deeply giving human, who emphasized the importance of charitable giving, education, and spiritual guidance.My guest today, Michelle Coltrane, is a jazz vocalist and composer. She was born in Paris, France and was raised primarily in Long Island, New York by her mother, musician Alice Coltrane, and her step-father, saxophonist John Coltrane.Michelle has performed and collaborated with artists such as Scott Hiltzik, Shea Welsh, Kenny Kirkland, Jeff Watts, Ronnie Laws, Billy Childs, Jack DeJohnette, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Reggie Workman, The Gap Band, McCoy Tyner and her brother Ravi Coltrane.Michelle has performed internationally with the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers presenting the music of Alice Coltrane.Her second album, Awakening, was released in 2017 and featured sung versions of her father, John Coltrane's, songs.Michelle of course co-hosted the “Straight No Chaser” radio program with me here on KPFK in Los Angeles and she is chief creative officer of the John Coltrane Home, a non-profit organization.September Events"A Force For Good Day" - A John & Alice Coltrane Home Service Event at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library in Dix Hills, NY. Mark your calendar for this free event, featuring a young persons concert of Long Island student musicians. Saturday, September 14 | 1pm - 4pm.LINES Ballet premiere  - as part of "The Year of Alice," the LINES Ballet will premiere a new work set to Alice Coltrane's transformative music. Thursday, September 26 | 7:30pm.TicketsAlso in September, please check back for more Year Of Alice events at Shapeshifter Plus in Brooklyn. Source: https://www.alicecoltrane.com/Source: https://thecoltranehome.org/Source: https://store.ververecords.com/pages/artist/alice-coltraneHost Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Send us Fan MailSupport the show@profileswithmaggielepique@maggielepique