She married Kenny 'Pancho' Hagood in 1960 and had a daughter with him. It was there that McLeod appeared on French television in a performance with Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke. She studied classical music, and also jazz with Bud Powell in Paris, where she worked as the intermission pianist at the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1960.

With the encouragement of her father, Alice McLeod pursued music and started to perform in various clubs around Detroit, until moving to Paris in the late 1950s. Her mother, Anna McLeod, was a member of the choir at her church her half-brother, Ernest Farrow, became a jazz bassist and her younger sister, Marilyn McLeod, became a songwriter at Motown. During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of Hindu devotional songs before returning to jazz in the 2000s.īiography Early life and career (1937–1965) Ĭoltrane was born Alice McLeod on August 27, 1937, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in a musical household. On July 3, 1994, she rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz.Ĭoltrane's career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967.

Alice Coltrane ( née McLeod August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader and swamini.Īn accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels.

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