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Infobox musical artist|name = Alice Coltrane|image = Alice_Coltrane.jpg|caption = Alice Coltrane in 2006. Photo by Filipe Ferreira|image_size =|landscape = yes|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name = Alice McLeod|alias =|Born = birth date|mf=yes|1937|8|27 Detroit , Michigan , United States|Died = death date and age|mf=yes|2007|1|12|1937|8|27 Los Angeles, California , U.S.|origin =|instrument = Piano , organ (music)|organ , harp |genre = Jazz , avant-garde jazz |occupation = Bandleader , composer , sideman |years_active = 1962& ndash;2006 ||label = Impulse& #33; Records|Impulse! Columbia Records|Columbia Warner Bros. Records ||associated_acts = John Coltrane , Pharaoh Sanders , Flying Lotus |website = http://www.alicecoltrane.org/ Alicecoltrane.org|current_members =|past_members = Alice Coltrane , née McLeod (August 27, 1937 & ndash; January 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist , organ (music)|organist , harp ist, and composer .
Biography
Born in Detroit Michigan , Coltrane studied European classical music|classical music , and also jazz with Bud Powell in Paris, France where she worked as the intermission pianist at the Blue Note Club in 1960. It was there that she was broadcast on French television in a performance with Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke.cite web|title =The Lucky Thompson Discography 1957–1974 | url = http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/LT57-74.HTM |accessdate =17 February 2011 She began playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, with her own trio and as a duo with vibraphone|vibist Terry Pollard . She married Kenny Hagood in 1960 and had a daughter (Michele) from that union. From 1962 to 1963 she played with Terry Gibbs 's quartet, during which time she met John Coltrane . In 1965 they were married in Juárez, Mexico and in January, 1966 she replaced McCoy Tyner as pianist with John Coltrane's group. She subsequently recorded with him and continued playing with the band until his death on July 17, 1967. John Coltrane became stepfather to Alice's daughter Michele (Miki), and the couple had three children: drummer John Jr. (1964–1982), and DJ Oranyan Coltrane|Oranyan (b. 1967) and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane|Ravi (b. 1965).
After her husband's death she continued to play with her own groups, later including her children, moving into more and more meditative music. She was one of the few harpists in the history of jazz and recorded many albums as a bandleader. Her essential recordings were made in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse& #33; Records .
Coltrane was a devotee of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba .cite web|url= http://www.saiquest.com/html/swamini.html|title=Swamini A. C. Turiyasangitananda|accessdate=2007-06-09|work=Sai Anantam Ashram In 1972, she moved to California , where she established the Vedanta|Vedantic Center in 1975.NewGroveJazz2002|Alice Coltrane|Hazell, Ed|i|494 By the late 1970s she had changed her name to Turiyasangitananda.cite album-notes|title=Transfiguration|albumlink=|bandname=Coltrane, Alice|year=1978|format=CD liner notes|pages=|publisher=Sepiatone|publisherid=STONE01|location= Burbank, California |mbid=60ffc973-5d08-48ea-90d8-9ced6228a840 Coltrane wrote the liner notes as Turiyasangitananda. She had written liner notes as Turiya Aparna for Universal Consciousness (1971). Coltrane was the spiritual director, or swami ni, of Shanti Anantam Ashram (later renamed Sai Anantam Ashram in Chumash Pradesh) which the Vedantic Center established in 1983 near Malibu, California .cite web|url= http://www.saiquest.com/html/background.html|title=Background|accessdate=2007-06-09|work=Sai Anantam Ashram On rare occasions, she continued to perform publicly under the name Alice Coltrane.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p65628|label=Biography http://www.sfjazz.org/concerts/2006/fall/artists/AliceColtrane.asp Alice Coltrane Quartet featuring Ravi Coltrane with Charlie Haden & Roy Haynes. SFJAZZ . Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
The 1990s saw renewed interest in her work, which led to the release of the compilation Astral Meditations , and in 2004 she released her comeback album Translinear Light . Following a twenty-five-year break from major public performances, she returned to the stage for three U.S. appearances in the fall of 2006, culminating on November 4 with a concert for the San Francisco Jazz Festival with her son Ravi, drummer Roy Haynes , and bassist Charlie Haden .
In 1994, Coltrane appeared on the Red Hot Organization 's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool . http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000083QR The album, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in African American society was named "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine .
Alice Coltrane died of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles. She is buried alongside her late husband John Coltrane in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, New York|Farmingdale , Suffolk County, New York .
Paul Weller (singer)|Paul Weller dedicated his song "Song For Alice (Dedicated to the Beautiful Legacy of Mrs. Coltrane)," from his album 22 Dreams , to Coltrane; the track entitled "Alice" on Sunn O))) 's 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions was similarly inspired. Electronic musician Flying Lotus is the grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane.
Discography
As a leader
A Monastic Trio (Impulse!, 1967)
Cosmic Music (Impulse!, 1966–68) with John Coltrane
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php? id=5848 Alice Coltrane at All About Jazz
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p65628
http://members.aol.com/ishorst/love/discalice.html Alice Coltrane discography
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php? id=40651 Alice Coltrane Playlist: Divine Ferocity
http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2007/01/15/alice-coltraine-rip/ In-depth Alice Coltrane obituary with a record-by-record overview of her career from NewYorkNightTrain.com
http://www.indypendent.org/? p=735 Last Song For Alice Coltrane , The Indypendent, Steven Wishnia
http://rbmaradio.com/ARCHIVE.153.0.php? extID=0& showID=427 RBMA Radio On Demand - Sound Obsession - Volume 7 - Tribute to Alice Coltrane - Kirk Degiorgio (The Beauty Room, As One)
http://ascentmagazine.com/articles.aspx? articleID=185& page=read& subpage=past& issueID=29 Alice in Wonder and Awe. An interview at ascentmagazine.com on jazz, God and the spiritual path.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=15394451 Alice Coltrane at NPR Music
http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Category:Questions_from..._Alice_Coltrane Alice Coltrane in discussion with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
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