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Music obviously 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, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs and especially, Yusef Lateef. Alice McLeod began studying classical music
at the age of seven. She attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School with pianist Hugh Lawson and drummer Earl Williams.
As a young woman she played in church, and was a fine bebop pianist in the bands of such local musicians as Lateef and
Kenny Burrell. McLeod traveled to Paris in 1959 to study with Bud Powell. She met John Coltrane while t ...read more
Music obviously 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, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs and especially, Yusef Lateef. Alice McLeod began studying classical music
at the age of seven. She attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School with pianist Hugh Lawson and drummer Earl Williams.
As a young woman she played in church, and was a fine bebop pianist in the bands of such local musicians as Lateef and
Kenny Burrell. McLeod traveled to Paris in 1959 to study with Bud Powell. She met John Coltrane while touring and recording
with Gibbs around 1962-63; she married the saxophonist in 1965, and joined his band — replacing McCoy Tyner — one year
later. Alice stayed with John's band until his death in 1967; on his albums Live at the Village Vanguard Again and Concert in
Japan, her playing is characterized by rhythmically ambiguous arpeggios and a pulsing thickness of texture.
Subsequently, she formed her own bands with players such as Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson, Frank Lowe, Carlos Ward,
Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson, Archie Shepp, and Jimmy Garrison. In addition to the piano, Ms. Coltrane also
played harp and Wurlitzer organ. She led a series of groups and recorded fairly often for Impulse, including the celebrated
albums Monastic Trio, Journey in Satchidananda, Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy. She then moved to Warner
Brothers where she relased albums such as Transformation, Eternity and her double live opus Transfiguration in 1978.
Long concerned with spiritual matters, Ms. Coltrane founded a center for Eastern spiritual study called the Vedanta Center in
1975. Also, she began a long hiatus from public or recorded performance, though her 1981 appearance on Marian
McPartland's Piano Jazz radio series was released by Jazz Alliance. In 1987, she led a quartet that included her sons Ravi and
Oran in a John Coltrane tribute concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Ms. Coltrane returned to
public performance in 1998 at a Town Hall Concert with Ravi and again at Joe's Pub in Manhattan in 2002. She began
recording again in 2000 and eventually issued the stellar Translinear Light on the Verve label in 2004. Produced by Ravi, it
featured Ms. Coltrane on piano, organ and synthesizer, in a host of playing situations with luminary collaborators that
included not only her sons, but also Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and James Genus.
Taken from All Music Guide. « hide |
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