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Alice Coltrane
The second wife of legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, multi-instrumentalist
Alice Coltrane became a unique musical figure in her own right and created an
extraordinary fusion of avant-garde jazz and Indian spiritual music. Born into a
musical family in Detroit, she was taught classical piano from the age of seven
and played in local jazz clubs before moving to Paris to study with be-bop
pianist Bud Powell in the late 1950s. She had a short-lived marriage to singer
Kenny Hagood before returning to the US to play with the Terry Gibbs Quartet and
married Coltrane in 1965.
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