Topic: Alice Coltrane, REST IN PEACE
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LOS ANGELES - Alice Coltrane, a jazz performer and composer and wife of the late saxophone legend John Coltrane, has died. She was 69.
Coltrane died Friday of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, said her sister, Marilyn McLeod.
For nearly 40 years, Coltrane managed the archive and estate of her husband, a pivotal figure in the history of jazz. He died of liver disease in 1967 at age 40.
A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp onto the jazz bandstand.
Born Alice McLeod in Detroit on Aug. 27, 1937, she began learning classical piano at age 7. She studied jazz piano briefly in Paris before moving to New York, where she met her future husband in 1963.
At that time, she was playing with bandleader Terry Gibbs, who has often taken credit for introducing the two.
John Coltrane "saw something in her that was beautiful," Gibbs told the Los Angeles Times.
She left Gibbs' band to marry Coltrane and began performing with his band in the mid-1960s. She played tour dates with Coltrane's group in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo.
"John not only taught me how to explore but to play thoroughly and completely," Alice Coltrane said in comments published in "The Black Giants."
After his death, she devoted herself to raising their children but continued to play.
Early albums under her name, including "A Monastic Trio" and "Ptah, the El Daoud," received critical praise.
Her last recording, "Translinear Light," came in 2004. Her last performances came in an abbreviated tour last fall with her saxophonist son, Ravi.
Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now located in Agoura Hills.
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God bless her family and friends.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Alice Coltrane, an avant-garde jazz pianist and widow of saxophone great John Coltrane, whose musical legacy she helped keep, has died at age 69 of respiratory failure, an official said on Sunday.
Coltrane died on Friday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in West Hills, a Los Angeles suburb, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Famed for replacing McCoy Tyner on piano in her husband's last quartet as he broke new and controversial musical ground, Coltrane was also a convert to Hinduism and a guru who had her own commune.
Born Alice McLeod in Detroit, Coltrane was trained as a classical musician and as an organist, harpist and pianist. Among her jazz teachers was the legendary Bud Powell.
Jazz vibist Terry Gibbs told the Los Angeles Times that Alice Coltrane met her husband while playing with his band at Birdland in the 1960s.
``He saw something in her that was beautiful. They were both very shy in a way. It was beautiful to see them fall in love,'' he told the paper adding, she was ``the nicest person I ever worked with. She was a real lady.''
She left Gibbs' band to marry and play piano for Coltrane as he moved into bolder, more spiritual music than he had been playing before.
In an interview with Essence magazine in September 2006, she was asked if she caused the change in his music and the break-up of the famous John Coltrane Quartet.
Her answer was, ``I didn't have to inspire John toward the avant-garde; he did not need anything from me. That is why it's so interesting that critics decided to dislike me. At some point the members of the quartet felt it was time for a change, and left on their own.
``When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who were qualified. He said, 'I want you there because you can do it.''' She credited Coltrane with ``showing me how to play fully.''
After his death in July 1967 at age 40, she raised the couple's children, continued playing and expanding upon his music and devoted herself to the study of Eastern religions, adopting the Sanskrit name, Turiyasangitananda.
- Jan 15, 2007 06:01pm by vertigone
She was a great musician. R.I.P.
- Jan 16, 2007 06:14am by Seph.Vs.TooN.
one of the most talented... man, she pushed music in places that people still haven't caught up to... her version of favorite things is amazing
