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Alice Coltrane

Also Known As: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, Swamini Turiyasangitananda, Alice McLeod, Turiya

Biography: Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader, and the wife of jazz legend John Coltrane. She was an accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz music.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Birthday: August 27, 1937

Age: 87 years old

Gender: Female

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Deathday: January 12, 2007

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Overview: Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival footage that includes Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party.

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Original Language: en

Release Date: 2017-09-20

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Overview: In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" television program—legendary jazz musician Alice Coltrane plays the harp and discusses her thoughts on music, spirituality, family, and the legacy of her late husband, John Coltrane.

Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1970-01-01

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Overview: An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.

Genres: Documentary Music

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2017-04-14

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Overview: Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.

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Original Language: en

Release Date: 1988-07-01

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