Alice Coltrane

Alice Lucille Coltrane ( née McLeod ; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda ( IAST : Svāminī Turīyasaṅgītānanda ) or simply Turiya , was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader. An 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. One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz , her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane , with whom she performed in 1966–1967.

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