Consumer Guide: April, 2020

Two proud country women, two grrls getting started, two songsters hanging in there, a flood of spiritual wisdom from a saxophone saint, and a wittier brand of wisdom from one of COVID-19's fallen

Sparked by an Xgau Sez question, I’ve spent many hours of 2020 exploring my slightly expanded Coltrane collection. So this spiritually fraught moment seemed the right time to go public: four full reviews plus an Honorable Mention that skip his Atlantic output altogether, where I recommend My Favorite Things and Giant Steps while noting that the alternat…