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ALICE COLTRANE was born in Detroit in 1937. Her interest in music started at a young age when she began playing organ at the Mount Olive Baptist Church. By the early 1960s she was a professional jazz musician playing with her own groups and also collaborating and performing with Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, Carlos Santana, and many others. She married John Coltrane in 1965, and not long after that she joined the John Coltrane Quartet, replacing pianist McCoy Tyner. Together, the Coltranes embarked on a deeply spiritual journey of musical exploration and forged a new genre of musical expression. In 1975, after a trip to India, Alice founded and was the director of the Vedantic Center; she would later establish a spiritual community in the Santa Monica Mountains. She passed away in 2007. ASHLEY KAHN is a music historian and author of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album.
"In the past two decades, Alice Coltrane's significance has been rightly elevated into the highest echelons of the jazz pantheon, where her influence is now often mentioned in the same breath as her husband's.-- ""Quietus"" In the ten years that followed [John Coltrane's death], Alice Coltrane released about a dozen albums . . . many of them masterpieces that imagine a meeting point between jazz and psychedelic rock, gospel traditions and Indian devotional music . . .-- ""New Yorker"" In her book, Alice Coltrane's personal path--from darkness to light, from sacrifice to physical and spiritual well-being--is what matters most. That, and an abiding sense of discovery, divine bliss, and individual purpose: the idea of fitting into the matrix, of being part of the plan . . . Monument Eternal also brings to mind another John Coltrane parallel that deserves to be emphasized. As a universalist who--like Alice--grew up in the Black church, the saxophonist espoused more of a philosophy than a specific path on the 1964 spiritual self-declaration A Love Supreme.--Ashley Kahn, from the Foreword to the New Edition"
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