Line #12 Music/AliceColtrane


1	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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3	Born in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, Michigan, she first started recording music in the 1960s. She was married to jazz legend Music/JohnColtrane in 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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5	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.
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7	Coltrane died of respiratory failure at age 69 in 2007 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState Long Island]].
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9	!!!Discography:
10	* ''A Monastic Trio'' (1968)
11	* ''Huntington Ashram Monastery'' (1969)
12	* ''Music/PtahTheElDaoud'' (1970)
13	* ''Music/JourneyInSatchidananda'' (1971)
14	* ''Music/WorldGalaxy'' (1971)
15	* ''Universal Consciousness'' (1972)
16	* ''Lord Of Lords'' (1973)
17	* ''The Elements'' with Joe Henderson (1974)
18	* ''Illuminations'' with Carlos Santana (1974)
19	* ''Eternity'' (1976)
20	* ''Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana'' (1977)
21	* ''Trancendence'' (1977)
22	* ''Transfiguration'' (1978)
23	* ''Turiya Sings'' (1982)
24	* ''Divine Songs'' (1987)
25	* ''Infinite Chants'' (1990)
26	* ''Glorious Chants'' (1995)
27	* ''Translinear Lights'' (2004)
28	* ''Carnegie Hall '71'' (2018)
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30	!!Tropes:
31	* BilingualBonus: Maybe doubles as a religion bonus, since many of her songs are named after Hindu gods, philosophers, mythology, concepts, etc. all in Sanskrit.
32	* CoverVersion: Common on most jazz albums, she's covered many standards, such as "My Favorite Things" and her husband's "A Love Supreme."
33	* EpicRocking: It is jazz after all--her albums usually have very short tracklists on account of the songs being very lengthy.
34	* FaceOnTheCover: Most of her albums.
35	* HarpOfFemininity: One of the biggest female jazz musicians of all time, and a harpist.
36	* IHaveManyNames: Usually referred to as just Alice Coltrane, she also has the Sanskrit name Swamini Turiyasangitananda, usually shortened as Turiya.
37	* {{Instrumentals}}: Standard for spiritual jazz, there's rarely any vocals at all.
38	* 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.
39	* LiveAlbum: ''Carnegie Hall '71,'' and ''Live at The Berkeley Community Theatre 1972.''
40	* 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.''
41	* OneManSong: "Something About John Coltrane." ''Journey in Satchidananda'' was named after a spiritual advisor of hers.
42	* SelfTitledAlbum: ''Turiya Sings'' technically counts as one.

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