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* FaceOnTheCover: Most of her albums.

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* ''Journey in Satchidananda'' with Pharaoh Sanders (1971)

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* ''Journey in Satchidananda'' with Pharaoh Sanders ''Music/PtahTheElDaoud'' (1970)
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Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in UsefulNotes/NewYork.

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Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in UsefulNotes/NewYork.
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Born in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, Michigan, she first started recording music in the 1960s. She was married to jazz legend Music/JohnColtrane in 1965and performed with him until his death in 1967. She is one of the biggest and most influential figures in spiritual jazz, and also stands out as one of the few harpists in the history of jazz.

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Born in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, Michigan, she first started recording music in the 1960s. She was married to jazz legend Music/JohnColtrane in 1965and 1965 and performed with him until his death in 1967. She is one of the biggest and most influential figures in spiritual jazz, and also stands out as one of the few harpists in the history of jazz.



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* HarpOfFemininity: One of the biggest female jazz musicians of all time, and a harpist.



* LesserStar: Alice tends to be overshadowed by her husband who is far more well-known in the world of jazz at large, but she is still ''very'' well respected as a musician, with some of her albums considered to be all-time classics in the world of jazz.

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* LesserStar: Alice tends to be overshadowed by her husband who is far more well-known in the world of jazz at large, but she is still ''very'' well respected as a musician, with some of her albums considered to be all-time classics in the world of jazz.classics.



* MinisculeRocking: Downplayed,

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* MinisculeRocking: Downplayed, but "Stopover Bombay" is a considerably shorter composition (about three minutes) compared to the epic rockers on the rest of ''Journey in Satchidananda.''

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* ''World Galaxy'' (1971)

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* ''World Galaxy'' ''Music/WorldGalaxy'' (1971)



* ''Trancendence''
* ''Transfiguration''
* ''Turiya Sings''
* ''Divine Songs''
* ''Infinite Chants''
* ''Glorious Chants''
* ''Translinear Lights''

* ''Ptah The El Daoud''


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* ''Trancendence''
''Trancendence'' (1977)
* ''Transfiguration''
''Transfiguration'' (1978)
* ''Turiya Sings''
Sings'' (1982)
* ''Divine Songs''
Songs'' (1987)
* ''Infinite Chants''
Chants'' (1990)
* ''Glorious Chants''
Chants'' (1995)
* ''Translinear Lights''

Lights'' (2004)
* ''Ptah The El Daoud''

''Carnegie Hall '71'' (2018)
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* EpicRocking: It is jazz after all.

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BilingualBonus: Maybe doubles as a religion bonus, since many of her songs are named after Hindu gods, philosophers, mythology, concepts, etc. all in Sanskrit.
* CoverVersion: Common on most jazz albums, she's covered many standards, such as "My Favorite Things" and her husband's "A Love Supreme."
* EpicRocking: It is jazz after all.all--her albums usually have very short tracklists on account of the songs being very lengthy.



* {{Instrumentals}}: Standard for spiritual jazz

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* {{Instrumentals}}: Standard for spiritual jazzjazz, there's rarely any vocals at all.



* LiveAlbum: ''The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live),'' released posthumously.

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* LiveAlbum: ''The Carnegie ''Carnegie Hall Concert (Live),'' released posthumously.'71,'' and ''Live at The Berkeley Community Theatre 1972.''
* MinisculeRocking: Downplayed,



* UpdatedReRelease: ''Turiya Sings'' was re-released in 2021 as ''Kirtan: Turiya Sings'' after several

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* UpdatedReRelease: ''Turiya Sings'' was re-released in 2021 as ''Kirtan: Turiya Sings'' after severalher son Ravi Coltrane discovered some alternate mixes of the album.

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Alice Lucille Coltrane (nee McLeod, born August 27, 1937, died January 12, 2007) also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, or simply Turiya, was an American {{Jazz}} musician, composer, band leader, and spiritual leader.

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Alice Lucille Coltrane (nee McLeod, [=McLeod=], born August 27, 1937, died January 12, 2007) also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, or simply Turiya, was an American {{Jazz}} musician, composer, band leader, and spiritual leader.



Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside her husband John Coltrane in UsefulNotes/NewYork.


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Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside her husband John Coltrane in UsefulNotes/NewYork.

!!!Discography:
* ''A Monastic Trio'' (1968)
* ''Huntington Ashram Monastery'' (1969)
* ''Journey in Satchidananda'' with Pharaoh Sanders (1971)
* ''World Galaxy'' (1971)
* ''Universal Consciousness'' (1972)
* ''Lord Of Lords'' (1973)
* ''The Elements'' with Joe Henderson (1974)
* ''Illuminations'' with Carlos Santana (1974)
* ''Eternity'' (1976)
* ''Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana'' (1977)
* ''Trancendence''
* ''Transfiguration''
* ''Turiya Sings''
* ''Divine Songs''
* ''Infinite Chants''
* ''Glorious Chants''
* ''Translinear Lights''

* ''Ptah The El Daoud''




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* IHaveManyNames: Usually referred to as just Alice Coltrane, she also has the Sanskrit

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* EpicRocking:
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* EpicRocking: It is jazz after all.
* IHaveManyNames: Usually referred to as just Alice Coltrane, she also has the Sanskrit name Swamini Turiyasangitananda, usually shortened as Turiya.



* LesserStar: Alice tends to be overshadowed by her husband who is far more well-known in the world of
* OneManSong: "Something About John Coltrane." ''Journey in Satchdananda'' was named after a spiritual advisor of hers.

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* LesserStar: Alice tends to be overshadowed by her husband who is far more well-known in the world of
of jazz at large, but she is still ''very'' well respected as a musician, with some of her albums considered to be all-time classics in the world of jazz.
* LiveAlbum: ''The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live),'' released posthumously.
* OneManSong: "Something About John Coltrane." ''Journey in Satchdananda'' Satchidananda'' was named after a spiritual advisor of hers.hers.
* SelfTitledAlbum: ''Turiya Sings'' technically counts as one.
* UpdatedReRelease: ''Turiya Sings'' was re-released in 2021 as ''Kirtan: Turiya Sings'' after several
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Alice Lucille Coltrane (nee McLeod, born August 27, 1937, died January 12, 2007) also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, or simply Turiya, was an American {{Jazz}} musician, composer, band leader, and spiritual leader.

Born in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, Michigan, she first started recording music in the 1960s. She was married to jazz legend Music/JohnColtrane in 1965and performed with him until his death in 1967. She is one of the biggest and most influential figures in spiritual jazz, and also stands out as one of the few harpists in the history of jazz.

Coltrane was also a devoted [[UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} Hindu]], which greatly influenced her life and music, founding Hindu centers and ashrams in California in which she served as a spiritual director, as well as recording several albums of Hindu devotional music.

Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside her husband John Coltrane in UsefulNotes/NewYork.


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* IHaveManyNames: Usually referred to as just Alice Coltrane, she also has the Sanskrit
* {{Instrumentals}}: Standard for spiritual jazz
* LesserStar: Alice tends to be overshadowed by her husband who is far more well-known in the world of
* OneManSong: "Something About John Coltrane." ''Journey in Satchdananda'' was named after a spiritual advisor of hers.

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