Alice Coltrane

Born: Aug 27, 1937 in Detroit, MI

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Died: Jan 12, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Jazz

Biography: Alice Coltrane was an uncompromising pianist, composer and bandleader, who spent the majority of her life seeking spiritually in both music and her private life. Music ran in Alice Coltrane's family; her older brother was bassist Ernie Farrow, who in the '50s and '60s played in the bands of Barry Harris, ...Read full biography

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Ptah The El Daoud

Released: 1970

Label: Impulse! Records

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Sometimes written off as an also-ran to her more famous husband, Alice Coltrane's work of the late '60s and early '70s shows that she was a strong composer and performer in her own right, with a unique ...Read full review

World Galaxy

Released: 1972

Label: Impulse! Records

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Alice Coltrane had become a musical world unto herself by the time she issued World Galaxy, recorded in late 1971. With jazz-rock fusion taking over the mainstream and the terminal avant-garde heading ...Read full review

More Alice Coltrane albums: Main Albums (19), Compilations (11)

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