Alice's playing is characterized by rhythmically fluid arpeggios and a pulsing, sometimes droning modal textural facility. They married in 1965 in Juárez, Mexico, after Coltrane's divorce from first wife, Naima Grubbs.īy then, Alice had joined John's "New Thing" quintet with drummer Rashied Ali, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and bassist Jimmy Garrison, and released Live at the Village Vanguard Again! in 1966 and Concert in Japan from the same tour. The pair began living and traveling together, and in 1964 they had settled on Long Island. (They issued the co-billed 1963 album El Nutto for Mercury.) During that time, she met John Coltrane, and they connected instantly. In 1962 to 1963, she returned to New York as a member of Terry Gibbs' quartet playing vibraphone and piano. However, the marriage was short-lived due to Hagood's growing dependency on heroin.Īlice and Michelle returned to Detroit, where Alice continued playing jazz with her own trio and in a duo with vibraphonist Terry Pollard. They married, had a daughter ( Michelle), and moved to New York in 1960. She met jazz singer Kenneth "Poncho" Hagood in Paris. While serving in that capacity, she appeared on French television in the company of Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot, and Kenny Clarke. In 1959, she moved to Paris briefly, where she studied informally with Bud Powell and served as intermission pianist at the Blue Note club. Ashby's harp playing not only informed Alice's pianism but influenced her to take up the harp later on. She was deeply influenced by harpist Dorothy Ashby, the first person to employ the instrument in bebop. Dense with arpeggios and expansive clustered chords, her piano playing suggested the harp. The reason McLeod stood out, even on a scene that boasted world-class talent such as Barry Harris and Teddy Wilson, was her playing style. She also got work on the Motor City's vibrant jazz scene with Yusef Lateef, Kenny Burrell, and others. She started leading her own group called the Premiers, performing gospel, jazz, and rhythm & blues standards members included trombonist George Bohanon, bassist Anthony Jackson, and drummer Oliver Jackson. Thanks to the encouragement of her father and her half brother, saxophonist-turned-bassist Ernie Farrow, she began studying jazz along with two notable classmates, pianist Hugh Lawson and drummer Earl Williams. McLeod attended Detroit's prestigious Cass Technical High School, where she studied classical music and played percussion in the marching band. Her piano and organ playing inspired the congregation to sponsor her music education at a community school. Two years later, she was playing organ during services at Mount Olive Baptist church. Alice began studying piano with a neighbor at age seven. Her mother was a pianist and sang in the church choir. She was born Alice McLeod in Detroit to Solon and Annie McLeod, the fifth of six children. She only recorded one more album, 1995's Translinear Light for Verve, produced by son Ravi Coltrane. Coltrane changed her name to Turiyasangitananda (nicknamed Turiya) and was appointed swamini of Sai Anantam Ashram. She established The Vedantic Center in Los Angeles in 1975, and signed with Warner Bros., releasing three studio albums with the label including that year's Eternity and the live double album Transfiguration in 1978. In 1972, she abandoned secular life, moved to California, and studied with Hindu gurus Swami Satchidananda and Sathya Sai Baba. Among them are Ptah, The El Daoud, Journey in Satchidananda, and the landmark Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy, employing chamber and orchestral strings from various disciplines in addition to jazz musicians. Coltrane released seven albums for Impulse! between 19. After his death in 1967, she issued her solo debut, A Monastic Trio, for Impulse! in 1968, playing both piano and harp. Alice was his primary musical collaborator during his final period. She met saxophonist John Coltrane in 1963, and they were married two years later. After establishing herself as a canny bop and hard bop pianist on the fertile Detroit scene of the late 1950s, she studied with Bud Powell in Paris during the early '60s. Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda ("Turiya") was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, vocalist, and swamini.
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