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How John and Alice Coltrane’s music inspired a vision for American Hinduism
By Murali Balaji — February 22, 2023
(RNS) — They were two of the religion’s most impactful and unique gurus in its evolution into an American way of life.
New film offers a portrait of New Orleans, told through its unique jazz funerals
By Mark Silk — November 5, 2021
(RNS) — 'City of a Million Dreams' is based on the book of the same name by renowned New Orlean's journalist Jason Berry.
Mary Lou Williams thought jazz had the power to heal. The Catholic Church agreed.
By Yonat Shimron — October 7, 2021
(RNS) — A popular biography of the legendary jazz pianist, composer and arranger gives a glimpse of how art can serve the pursuit of holiness.
Harry Connick Jr., bunkered for the pandemic, emerges with ‘Alone With My Faith’
By Maina Mwaura — April 6, 2021
(RNS) — While it’s reverent, the album is anything but churchy.
An atheist philosopher leaves the door open to religion’s power
By Yonat Shimron — August 1, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — Asma argues that religion is an emotional survival toolbox that resides in the limbic brain, headquarters of human emotions as true as love, or grief or fear.
Eviction comes to Church of John Coltrane, home of sacred jazz
By Kimberly Winston — March 31, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) Sunday worship is built on a live performance of "A Love Supreme." But where the music will play next, and for how long, is unclear.
The sacred ran through jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s music
By David E. Anderson — December 6, 2012
(RNS) Jazz legend Dave Brubeck was best known in the secular jazz world for his startling compositions using different time signatures. Religion, however, was never far from Brubeck’s creative mind -- or his inspiration. By David E. Anderson.
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