Alice Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known… Read Full Bio ↴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. She was married to jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. One of the foremost exponents of the "spiritual jazz" style, her eclectic music proved widely influential both within and outside the world of jazz.
Coltrane's professional music career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam Ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. On July 3, 1994, Swamini rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram. During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of Hindu devotional songs before returning to jazz in the 2000s.
She studied classical music, and attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where she continued her musical training. In 1959 she travelled to Paris and studied briefly with pianist Bud Powell. She began playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, both with her own trio and as a duo with vibist Terry Pollard. From 1962 to 1963 she played with Terry Gibbs's quartet, when she met John Coltrane, with whose group she played piano from 1965 until his death in 1967, and whom she married in 1966. After her husband's death, she continued to play with her own groups, moving into more and more meditative music, and latterly playing with her children, which she had four: singer Miki (Michele) from a previous marriage, saxophonists Oran and Ravi, and John W. Coltrane Jr, who died in a car accident in 1982.
Alice Coltrane died of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles in 2007, aged 69. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York.
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. She was married to jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. One of the foremost exponents of the "spiritual jazz" style, her eclectic music proved widely influential both within and outside the world of jazz.
Coltrane's professional music career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam Ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. On July 3, 1994, Swamini rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram. During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of Hindu devotional songs before returning to jazz in the 2000s.
She studied classical music, and attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where she continued her musical training. In 1959 she travelled to Paris and studied briefly with pianist Bud Powell. She began playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, both with her own trio and as a duo with vibist Terry Pollard. From 1962 to 1963 she played with Terry Gibbs's quartet, when she met John Coltrane, with whose group she played piano from 1965 until his death in 1967, and whom she married in 1966. After her husband's death, she continued to play with her own groups, moving into more and more meditative music, and latterly playing with her children, which she had four: singer Miki (Michele) from a previous marriage, saxophonists Oran and Ravi, and John W. Coltrane Jr, who died in a car accident in 1982.
Alice Coltrane died of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles in 2007, aged 69. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York.
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A Love Supreme Love love is a sacred word Love is the name of…
Govinda Jai Jai Govinda Jai Jai Gopala Jai Jai Govinda Jai Jai Gopala Jai Ja…
Hare Krishna [Repeat: x2] Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Har…
Hari Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Nar…
Krishna Krishna [Repeat: x2] Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Har…
Om Shanti Om Jai Rama Jai Krishna Hari Om Om Jai Rama Jai Krishna Hari…
Om Supreme When I called you to California You knew I would meet…
Rama Guru Rama Guru Krishna Guru Rama Guru Krishna Guru Rama Guru Kris…
Rama Rama Rama Rama Shivamani Rama Rama Shivamani Rama Rama Shivamani …
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Kat Phish
I can never can never forget this music. A lonely drifter in a crude dangerous city Pasco Washington I finally had made enough money to live in a safe place and to buy a record player but had no money for albums. I went to the Goodwill and found this album unopened for 1.50 Something said this is for you I still am in awe 47 years later. I still listen to it.
Josh N
This is some of the greatest jazz piano of all time. Everything about this track is incredible, but that piano speaks to me on another level. Alice was a true genius.
I Love, Tomorrow.
Marry me!
brotzmannsax
Listen to her on the John Coltrane Live In Japan double LP she will take you beyond the stars.
Marvia Keyser
May this music bring spiritual enlightenment to all who listen to it; expands the heart, mind and soul!
Eric Brenner
This song saved me on so many levels. Thank you Alice, Pharoah Sanders and of course John Coltrane.
jenny_jenny_nc
Coltrane is a wonderful door. And inside that space they have created there are rooms of magic. Or maybe one giant room of joy. ..? I love them so much. I pray for us all. Every one of us on this old earth. Bless. ॐ
Daniel Lavery
Great track. Pharoah obviously has his own sound, but I feel like he channels John Coltrane's energy and style in this track in his solos, which really supports the themes.
Nichole Royster
Loving the passion in this sound!!! it's so easy to get lost in greatness...
A Harris
While traveling in a rental car I came upon a pretty decent radio station. They played Journey in Satchidananda. Tears Fell. I had never heard Alice played on the radio and I KNEW Who She Was. Tears of Joy. My heart skipped a beat. We Smiled Together. She said hello to me on my journey. Blessings To You.