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Andy Beta

@andybeta.bsky.social

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Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/an…

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Big news for @ericdharvey.com on his birthday:

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cover gives me Tetuzi vibes:

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cali pals, a bunch of LA sessions this week at Blue Note LA, PRS, LAPL, Lore, Harp Center LA. Come through for cosmic music

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A tribute to the late Steve Barrow and how he transported a TX teen to the Bizarro World that is JA dub reggae

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Ten years gone. And I still think back to this small moment in rehearsal before Prince's legendary RnR HoF performance: www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/a...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Chatted music, spirituality, and writing about a saint with @tylerwilcox.bsky.social for @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/07/c...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Funny, I just snapped these paragraphs from Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, in part because they remind me so much of the impetus behind Mancuso's early Loft parties:

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tonight! With Brandee Younger, the legendary Tulsi, and @jennpelly.bsky.social as.nyu.edu/departments/...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

UK release day for Cosmic Music:

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Tomorrow!

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

And next week this book will be out in the world!

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

2 1/2 years of research...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you are from.

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Read Meltzer's Gulcher once...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

In May of 2024, I received an email that Jack DeJohnette would speak with me for the Alice Coltrane book. So thoughtful and direct: "The music wasn't complicated. It wasn't difficult. It was a vibe, you know? Melodies, spiritual feeling, [an] expansive look at being, playing that music."