Alice Coltrane
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Alice Coltrane in 2006
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alice McLeod |
| Born |
August 27, 1937 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | January 12, 2007 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, composer |
| Instruments | Piano, organ, harp, vocals |
| Years active | 1962–2006 |
| Labels | Impulse!, Columbia, Warner Bros. |
| Associated acts | John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Carlos Santana |
| Website | Official website |
Alice Coltrane (née McLeod, August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer, swamini, and the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Alice McLeod studied classical music, and also jazz with Bud Powell in Paris, where she worked as the intermission pianist at the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1960. It was there that she was broadcast on French television in a performance with Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke. She began playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, with her own trio and as a duo with vibist Terry Pollard. She married Kenny "Pancho" Hagood in 1960 and had a daughter with him. In 1962–63 she played with Terry Gibbs's quartet, during which time she met John Coltrane. In 1965 they were married in Juárez, Mexico. John Coltrane became stepfather to Alice's daughter Michele and the couple had three children: John Jr. (1964–1982), a drummer; Oranyan (b. 1967), a DJ who played saxophone with Santana for a period of time; and Ravi (born 1965), a saxophonist.
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