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Alice Coltrane
Sign in to saveAlso known as Turiyasangitananda, Turiya Alice Coltrane, Alice Hagood, Turiya Aparna, Alice McLeod Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, née McLeod
American jazz musician
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal
- Monument Eternal
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Film & TV
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader, and the wife of jazz legend John Coltrane. She was an accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz music.
Known for
- House of Aama: Threads of Legacy — Herself2024
- Rebirth Is Necessary — Self (Archive Footage)2017
- Chasing Trane — Self - Musician / 2nd Wife (archive footage)2017
- Eternity's Pillar — Self1988
- Eternity’s Pillar — Self1985
- Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane — Self1970
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-09-23
- Active to
- 1967-07-17
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 416,795
- Total plays
- 5,753,822
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Alice Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz pianist, harpist, organist, composer, and in her later years a swamini. She also occasionally sang and played tambura, harmonium and percussion. An accomplished pianist and 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! and other record labels. <a href=
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alice
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- West Hills
- Spouse
- Kenny Hagood
- Child
- Ravi Coltrane
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- harp
- Record label
- Impulse!
- Official website
- www.alicecoltrane.org
- Image
- Alice Coltrane 1972.jpg
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- Commons category
- Alice Coltrane
- date of birth
- 1937-08-27
- date of death
- 2007-01-12
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- cause of death
- respiratory failure
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- relative
- Ernie Farrow
- married name
- Alice Hagood
- birth name
- Alice McLeod
- religious name
- Turiya Aparna
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