Coltrane

Perhaps no bumper sticker accomplishes what Evans describes better than “Keep Honking! I’m Listening to Alice Coltrane’s 1971 Meteoric Sensation ‘Universal Consciousness.’”

It took off in 2021 and he estimates that he has since sold at least 3,000 of the Coltrane stickers and has given away thousands more for free.

Since the success of his Coltrane sticker, DeLoach has come up with more than 120 designs.

“Like in China, to them, jazz is Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Coltrane, all of that is jazz to them. It’s not as constricted of a definition as it tends to be in America where it’s like, ‘Oh, if it’s not purist, it’s not jazz.’

Presenting never-before-seen ephemera and the works of 19 contemporary Black artists, the Hammer Museum pays homage to the life and impact of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.