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Mzuri
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Post Number: 2976
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 02:29 am: | 
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Jazz Performer Alice Coltrane Dies at 69
Jan 14, 7:13 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 274
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 05:42 am: |
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Rest in peace, Alice. |
Fortified
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Username: Fortified
Post Number: 436
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 07:25 am: |
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R.I.P.  |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1570
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 10:01 am: |
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Very sad. I only recently discovered her music ("Translinear Light"), assuming that she would be derivative of John. But she was a wonderful innovator in her own right. A real loss. Rest in Peace, Sister Alice. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 6710
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 11:16 am: |
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Alice was one of John Coltrane's "favorite things" and now they can make beautiful music together. R.I. P. |
Yukio
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Post Number: 1583
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 11:57 am: |
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RIP! |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 4024
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 02:36 pm: |
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RIP Alice.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1511
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 03:08 pm: |
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I'm very sad to hear this. There were a few things she did with Pharaoh Sanders and Joe Henderson that I liked (PTAH THE EL-DAOUD)but when she replaced McCoy Tyner as the pianist in her husbands group, I thought her playing was very weak and it really drug the dynamics of the group down. She could never bring the technical and interactive chemistry to the group that McCoy did. Her playing was a glaring hole in the group. I say that not to be disrespectful but I say it as one of fact. Not saying she was not an interesting musician but she definitely did not fit in that particular group. But she was a wonderful person and very spiritual (like John). But again, I am sorry to hear this. Her son Ravi Coltrane will carry the spirit of creativity of his father John and his mother Alice in his playing.
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