A tribute to one of the most singular figures in American music — pianist, harpist, composer, spiritual leader, and mother. Born in Detroit in 1937, Alice Coltrane began piano at seven and went on to reshape the boundaries of jazz, recording seminal albums including Journey in Satchidananda and A Monastic Trio and becoming one of the very few harpists in the history of the genre. She moved to Southern California in 1972, founding the Sai Anantam ashram, and continued recording and releasing music entirely on her own terms until her death in Los Angeles in 2007.

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Hammer Museum, this volume takes its title from Coltrane's 1977 autobiography and devotional text. Works by 19 contemporary artists — among them Rashid Johnson and Cauleen Smith — are woven together with archival ephemera including handwritten sheet music, unreleased recordings, and rarely seen footage. A portrait of an artist who was, as her son Ravi Coltrane puts it, simply ahead of her time.