David Stephen Calonne is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of several books regarding the relationship of the counterculture to spirituality. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He has also lectured widely in Europe--at the University of Oxford, the European University in Florence, the University of London and in Paris--and in the United States at several institutions including Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

• 1: Sun Ra: I Dared to Knock at the Door of the Cosmos 2: Charles Mingus: Plucking Rolled Balls of Sound 3: John Coltrane: Mystic Genius 4: Sonny Rollins: Music Is an Open Sky 5: Don Cherry: Music, Love, Wisdom, Peace 6: Alice Coltrane: Becoming Turiyasangitananda 7: Anthony Braxton: Greater Forces 8: Nicole Mitchell: Vision Quest

David Stephen Calonne is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of several books regarding the relationship of the counterculture to spirituality. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He has also lectured widely in Europe--at the University of Oxford, the European University in Florence, the University of London and in Paris--and in the United States at several institutions including Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

• 1: Sun Ra: I Dared to Knock at the Door of the Cosmos 2: Charles Mingus: Plucking Rolled Balls of Sound 3: John Coltrane: Mystic Genius 4: Sonny Rollins: Music Is an Open Sky 5: Don Cherry: Music, Love, Wisdom, Peace 6: Alice Coltrane: Becoming Turiyasangitananda 7: Anthony Braxton: Greater Forces 8: Nicole Mitchell: Vision Quest

David Stephen Calonne is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of several books regarding the relationship of the counterculture to spirituality. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He has also lectured widely in Europe--at the University of Oxford, the European University in Florence, the University of London and in Paris--and in the United States at several institutions including Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

• 1: Sun Ra: I Dared to Knock at the Door of the Cosmos 2: Charles Mingus: Plucking Rolled Balls of Sound 3: John Coltrane: Mystic Genius 4: Sonny Rollins: Music Is an Open Sky 5: Don Cherry: Music, Love, Wisdom, Peace 6: Alice Coltrane: Becoming Turiyasangitananda 7: Anthony Braxton: Greater Forces 8: Nicole Mitchell: Vision Quest