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Alice Coltrane
Deceased

How Did Alice Coltrane Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 69
Also known asAlice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, Swamini Turiyasangitananda, Alice McLeod, TuriyaGenderFemaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn27/08/1937Born inDetroit, Michigan, USADied12/01/2007 (aged 69)Died inWest HillsCauserespiratory failureWikidataQ238243 ↗Buried atPinelawn Memorial ParkTMDb#2659921 ↗

Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda 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.

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Filmography5 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2024House of Aama: Threads of LegacyMovieHerself87
2017Chasing TraneMovieSelf - Musician / 2nd Wife (archive footage)80
1988Eternity's PillarMovieSelf51
1985Eternity’s PillarSeriesSelf48
1970Black Journal: 26; Alice ColtraneMovieSelf33