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{{short description|American jazz musician (1937–2007)}}
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| name               = Alice Coltrane
| image              = Alice Coltrane 1972.jpg
| alt                = Coltrane playing piano
| caption            = Coltrane in 1972
| birth_name         = Alice McLeod
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1937|08|27}}
| birth_place        = [[Detroit, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2007|1|12|1937|8|27}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| other_names        = Turiyasangitananda
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* {{marriage |[[John Coltrane]] |1965 |1967 |end=died}}
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| children           = 4, including [[Michelle Coltrane|Michelle]] and [[Ravi Coltrane|Ravi]]
| family             = [[Ernie Farrow]] (half brother)<br>[[Flying Lotus]] (grand nephew)
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| website            = {{URL|alicecoltrane.org}}
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| genre           = {{hlist|[[Jazz]]|[[avant-garde jazz]]|[[post-bop]]|[[spiritual jazz]]|[[devotional song|devotional music]]}}
| instrument      = {{hlist|Piano|organ|harp|vocals}}
| years_active    = 1960–2006
| label           = {{hlist|[[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]]|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]}}
| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[John Coltrane]]|[[Pharoah Sanders]]|[[Carlos Santana]]|[[Ravi Coltrane]]|[[Flying Lotus]]}}
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'''Alice Lucille Coltrane''' (''{{née}}'' '''McLeod'''; August 27, 1937{{spnd}}January 12, 2007), also known as '''Swamini Turiyasangitananda''' ({{IAST3|Svāminī Turīyasaṅgītānanda}}) or simply '''Turiya''', was an American [[jazz]] musician, composer, bandleader, and [[Hinduism|Hindu]] spiritual leader.

An accomplished pianist and one of the few [[harp]]ists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for [[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]] and other record labels.<ref name="amgbio">{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p65628|author=Chris Kelsey|label=Alice Coltrane Biography}}</ref> She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer [[John Coltrane]], with whom she performed in 1966–1967.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Guardian on Alice Coltrane |first=Jude |last=Rogers |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=November 17, 2017 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/17/alice-coltrane-london-jazz-festival |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> One of the foremost proponents of [[spiritual jazz]], her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz.

Coltrane's career slowed from the mid-1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam [[ashram]] in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director.  On July 3, 1994, she rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram''.'' During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of [[Hindu]] [[devotional songs]] before returning to spiritual jazz in the 2000s and releasing her final album ''[[Translinear Light]]'' in 2004.

==Biography==
===Early life and career (1937–1965)===
Coltrane was born Alice Lucille McLeod on August 27, 1937, in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], and grew up in a musical household.<ref name=Thurber2007>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/193789710/?match=1&clipping_id=168753472 |title=Alice Coltrane, 69; performer, composer of jazz and New Age music; spiritual leader |first=Jon |last=Thurber |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 14, 2007 |via=newspapers.com |id={{Proquest|422058653}} }}</ref> Her mother, Anna McLeod, was a member of the choir at her church; her half-brother, [[Ernie Farrow|Ernest Farrow]], became a jazz bassist;<ref name=Thurber2007/> and her younger sister, [[Marilyn McLeod]], became a songwriter at [[Motown]].<ref name=Kemp2022>{{cite web |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-alice-coltrane-created-revolutionary-jazz-record/ |title=‘Journey in Satchidananda’: How Alice Coltrane created the most revolutionary jazz record of the 1970s |first=Sam |last=Kemp |website=[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]] |date=February 24, 2022 |access-date=March 24, 2025 }}</ref>

With the encouragement of her father, Alice McLeod pursued music and started to perform in various clubs around Detroit, until moving to [[Paris]] in the late 1950s. She studied [[European classical music|classical music]], and also jazz with [[Bud Powell]] in Paris,<ref name=Ratliff2007>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/music/15colt.html |title=Alice Coltrane, Jazz Artist and Spiritual Leader, Dies at 69 |first=Ben |last=Ratliff |date=January 15, 2007 |access-date=April 11, 2016 |work=[[The New York Times]] |id={{Proquest|433493447}} }}</ref> where she worked as the intermission pianist at the [[Blue Note (Paris)|Blue Note Jazz Club]] in 1960. It was there that McLeod appeared on French television in a performance with [[Lucky Thompson]], [[Pierre Michelot]] and [[Kenny Clarke]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Lucky Thompson Discography 1957–1974|url=http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/LT57-74.HTM|access-date=February 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707184316/http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/LT57-74.HTM|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> She married [[Kenny Hagood|Kenny "Pancho" Hagood]] in 1960 and had a daughter, Michelle, with him.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alice-coltrane-432311.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224181754/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alice-coltrane-432311.html | archive-date=December 24, 2012 | url-status=dead | first=Steve | last=Voce | title=Alice Coltrane – Obituaries | work=[[The Independent]] | date=January 16, 2007 | access-date=October 9, 2015 }}</ref> The marriage ended soon after, on account of Hagood's developing heroin addiction, and McLeod was forced to return to Detroit with her daughter.<ref name="pitchfork1">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/10009-transfiguration-and-transcendence-the-music-of-alice-coltrane/ |title=Transfiguration and Transcendence: The Music of Alice Coltrane |first=Andy |last=Beta |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=January 12, 2017 |language=en|access-date=February 28, 2017}}</ref> She continued playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, with her own trio and as a duo with [[vibraphone|vibraphonist]] [[Terry Pollard]]. In 1962–63, she played with [[Terry Gibbs]]' quartet, during which time she met [[John Coltrane]]. In 1965, they married in [[Ciudad Juárez, Mexico]]. John Coltrane became stepfather to Alice Coltrane's daughter [[Michelle Coltrane|Michelle]], and the couple had three children together: John Jr. (1964, a drummer who died in a car accident in 1982); [[Ravi Coltrane|Ravi]] (b. 1965, a saxophonist); and Oranyan (b. 1967, a [[DJ]]).<ref name=Ratliff2007/> Oranyan later played saxophone with [[Santana (band)|Santana]] for a period of time.

===Solo work (1967–1978)===
Alice and John's growing involvement in spirituality influenced some of John's compositions and projects, such as ''[[A Love Supreme]]''.<ref name="pitchfork1"/> In January 1966, Alice Coltrane replaced [[McCoy Tyner]] as pianist with John Coltrane's group. She subsequently recorded with him and continued playing with the band until John's death on July 17, 1967. After her husband's death, she continued to forward the musical and spiritual vision, and started to release records as a composer and bandleader. One day, when she was struggling with her health and caring for her young family of four children, there was a knock at the door and to her immense surprise a full-sized [[Lyon & Healy]] concert harp was delivered, having been ordered by her husband for her before his unexpected death. Her first album, ''[[A Monastic Trio]]'', was recorded in 1967. From 1968 to 1977, she released thirteen full-length records. As the years passed, her musical direction moved further from standard jazz into the more cosmic, spiritual world. Albums like ''[[Universal Consciousness]]'' (1971), and ''[[World Galaxy]]'' (1972), show a progression from a four-piece line-up to a more orchestral approach, with lush string arrangements and cascading harp glissandos. Until 1973, she released music with [[Impulse! Records]], the jazz label for which her husband recorded. From 1973 to 1978, she released primarily on [[Warner Bros. Records]] until she stepped away from the public eye.

===Ashram years (1975–1995)===
After the death of her husband, Coltrane experienced a period of trial. She suffered from severe weight loss and sleepless nights, as well as hallucinations,<ref name=Stryker2006>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/363364545/?clipping_id=168759963 |title=Pianist Alice Coltrane fashioned her life and music from her time with legendary saxophonist John Coltrane |first=Mark |last=Stryker |date=September 22, 2006 |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |pages=1F,11F |via=newspapers.com }}</ref> which she would later describe as her undergoing [[Tapas (Indian religions)|''tapas'']] (a Sanskrit term for austere spiritual practices). Seeing Coltrane in a state of emotional turmoil and wanting to help, a musical colleague of hers introduced her to the [[Yoga guru]] [[Satchidananda Saraswati|Swami Satchidananda]], under whom she would take [[Diksha|mantra diksha]] and study Hinduism during the early 1970s.<ref name=Stryker2006/> By 1972, she had abandoned her secular life and moved to [[California]], where she established the [[Vedanta|Vedantic]] Center in 1975.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Alice Coltrane|last=Hazell|first=Ed|date=2002|editor-first=B.|editor-last=Kernfeld|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|volume=i|page=494|location=London|publisher=Macmillan}}</ref> During the mid-1970s, she underwent a mystical experience wherein she believed [[God]] had initiated her directly into [[sannyasa]], giving her the monastic name Turiyasangitananda,<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Transfiguration |last=Coltrane |first=Alice| year=1978 |type=CD liner notes|publisher=Sepiatone|id=STONE01|location=[[Burbank, California]]}} Coltrane wrote the liner notes as Turiyasangitananda. She had written liner notes as Turiya Aparna for ''Universal Consciousness'' (1971).</ref> which she translated as "the Transcendental Lord's Highest Song of Bliss." She became the spiritual director or [[guru]] of the Shanti Anantam Ashram, which the Vedantic Center established in 1983 near [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saiquest.com/html/background.html|title=Background|access-date=June 9, 2007|work=Sai Anantam Ashram|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521045243/http://www.saiquest.com/html/background.html|archive-date=May 21, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alice would perform formal and informal Vedic ceremonies at the ashram and lead them in congregational chanting or [[kirtan]]. She developed original melodies from the traditional chants and started to experiment by including synthesizers, sophisticated song structures and aspects of Gospel music in her compositions. During the late 1970s to early 1980s, Coltrane would become progressively more influenced by the ecstatic devotionalism of the [[Sathya Sai Baba movement]] and [[ISKCON]] communities present on the West Coast, incorporating their [[bhajan]]s into her artistic milieu. The album ''[[Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana]]'' (Lit. 'chanting the names of [[Radha]] and [[Krishna|Krishna']]) was released by Warner Bros in 1977, featuring gospel-inflected renditions of popular bhajans and [[mantra]]s within both movements. She sent a copy of the record to [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada|A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], the founder and leader of ISKCON, who replied to her in a letter dated March 12, 1977, commending her for her chanting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Letter to Turiya (Alice Coltrane) |url=https://vedabase.io/en/library/letters/letter-to-turiya-alice-coltrane/ |website=vedabase.io |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref> Coltrane would eventually meet Bhaktivedanta Swami in person while on a pilgrimage to [[Vrindavan|Vrindavan, India]] on July 1, 1977, after being invited by ISKCON leaders to perform at various [[Ratha Yatra|Ratha-yatra]] festivals across the United States. 
 
Despite her various spiritual affiliations, Coltrane primarily sought spiritual guidance not from external gurus but instead from God himself, with whom mystics like her are able to communicate as a result of the spiritual merit acquired through her tapas. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Coltrane released books through her publishing company, the Avatar Book Institute, which shared her divine transmissions and spiritual teachings, rooted in the direct communion she cultivated through years of rigorous devotional practice and tapas. The first of these, ''Endless Wisdom I'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Endless Wisdom - Vol 1 |url=https://www.innerpath.com/endless-wisdom-vol-1/ |website=innerpath.com}}</ref> was released in 1982 with an accompanying spiritual cassette, ''[[Turiya Sings]]''. Coltrane would go on to release three more cassettes, [[Divine Songs (Swamini Turiyasangitananda album)|''Divine Songs'']] in 1987, ''Infinite Chants'' in 1990, and ''Glorious Chants'' in 1995, alongside the books ''Divine Revelations'' in 1995 and ''Endless Wisdom II'' in 1999. In 2017, the tenth anniversary of Coltrane's death, New York-based label [[Luaka Bop]] released [[The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda|''World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda'']], a compilation of tracks from her ashram cassettes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing: "World Spirituality Classics 1: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda |url=https://www.alicecoltrane.com/announcing-world-spirituality-classics-1-the-ecstatic-music-of-alice-coltrane |website=alicecoltrane.com |access-date=September 24, 2023}}</ref> In 2021, [[Impulse! Records]] re-released ''Turiya Sings'' under the title ''[[Kirtan: Turiya Sings]]'', using a mix containing Coltrane's vocals and Wurlitzer organ without the overdubbed synthesizers and strings.

During the late 1980s, Coltrane received a revelation during her meditations that allegedly confirmed the South Indian spiritual leader [[Sathya Sai Baba]] to be "the [[Avatar]] of this age", leading her in 1994 to rename her ashram the 'Sai Anantam Ashram' in his honor.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berkman |first1=Franya J. |title=Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane |date=2010-09-23 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=9780819569257 |pages=99–100}}</ref> Until her death, she remained an ardent devotee of Sai Baba and undertook frequent pilgrimages with her students to his residence in [[Puttaparthi|Puttaparthi, India]] to acquire his blessings. Following Coltrane's death in 2007, the ashram's attendance dwindled, and it was eventually permanently closed in 2017, the site later being destroyed in the 2018 [[Woolsey Fire]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Blais-Billie |first1=Braudie |title=Alice Coltrane's Ashram Lost in California Wildfires |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=November 18, 2018 |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/alice-coltranes-ashram-lost-in-california-wildfires/ |language=en |access-date=December 3, 2018 }}</ref>

===Later years and death (1995–2007)===
The 1990s saw renewed interest in her work, which led to the release of the compilation ''Astral Meditations'', and in 2004 she released her comeback album ''[[Translinear Light]]''.  Following a 25-year break from major public performances, she returned to the stage for three U.S. appearances in the fall of 2006, including a concert at Ann Arbor's [[Hill Auditorium]] presented by [[University Musical Society]] of the [[University of Michigan]] on September 23, which would have been [[John Coltrane]]'s 80th birthday, and culminating on November 4 with a concert for the [[San Francisco Jazz Festival]] with her son Ravi, drummer [[Roy Haynes]], and bassist [[Charlie Haden]].<ref name="sfjazz">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfjazz.org/concerts/2006/fall/artists/AliceColtrane.asp|title=Alice Coltrane Quartet featuring Ravi Coltrane with Charlie Haden & Roy Haynes|website=[[SFJAZZ]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210115910/http://www.sfjazz.org/concerts/2006/fall/artists/AliceColtrane.asp|archive-date=December 10, 2008|access-date=May 25, 2007}}</ref><ref name="ums">{{cite web|url=https://umsrewind.org/artists/?id=8713|title=Coltrane, Alice|access-date=April 11, 2019}}</ref>

Alice Coltrane died of [[respiratory failure]] at [[West Hills, Los Angeles|West Hills]] Hospital and Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles in 2007, aged 69.<ref name=Thurber2007/><ref name=Ratliff2007/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2007/01/15/alice-coltrane/79c5b5df-824f-4271-ae86-e500d784ca57/|title=Alice Coltrane; Musician, Spiritual Guru |first=Teresa |last=Wiltz |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 14, 2007}}</ref> She is buried alongside John Coltrane in Pinelawn Memorial Park, [[Farmingdale, New York|Farmingdale]], [[Suffolk County, New York]].

==Impact==
Coltrane is an influence on the English rock band [[Radiohead]], such as on the song "Dollars and Cents", from their 2001 album ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]''.<ref name="Varga">{{Cite web |last=Varga |first=George |date=25 April 2019 |title=Radiohead's Jazz Frequencies |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826142100/https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |archive-date=26 August 2019 |access-date=2020-05-13 |website=[[Jazz Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Paul Weller (singer)|Paul Weller]] dedicated his song "Song for Alice (Dedicated to the Beautiful Legacy of Mrs. Coltrane)", from his 2008 album ''[[22 Dreams]]'', to Coltrane; the track titled "Alice" on [[Sunn O)))]]'s 2009 album ''[[Monoliths & Dimensions]]'' was similarly inspired. Electronic musician [[Flying Lotus|Steve "Flying Lotus" Ellison]] is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane.<ref>Chris Martins, [https://www.laweekly.com/flying-lotus-rising/ "Flying Lotus Rising"], ''LA Weekly'', May 13, 2010.</ref> On his 2010 album ''[[Cosmogramma]]'', he paid tribute to Coltrane in the form of a song titled "Drips//Auntie's Harp", in which he sampled her harp from the track "Blue Nile", featured on the album ''[[Ptah, the El Daoud]]'' (1970).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whosampled.com/sample/104826/Flying-Lotus-DripsAuntie%27s-Harp-Alice-Coltrane-Blue-Nile |title=WhoSampled: Flying Lotus Drips/Auntie's Harp - Alice Coltrane Blue Nile |website=whosampled.com |access-date=February 23, 2021}}</ref> The song "That Alice" on [[Laura Veirs|Laura Veirs']] album ''[[Warp and Weft]]'' is about Coltrane.<ref name=veirs>{{cite news|last=Gill|first=Andy|title=Album review: Laura Veirs, Warp and Weft (Bella Union)|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-laura-veirs-warp-and-weft-bella-union-8764406.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822235933/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-laura-veirs-warp-and-weft-bella-union-8764406.html |archive-date=2013-08-22 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|access-date= September 24, 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=August 16, 2013}}</ref> Orange Cake Mix included a song entitled "Alice Coltrane" on their 1997 LP Silver Lining Underwater. Poet giovanni singleton's book ''Ascension'' includes 49 poems written daily after Alice Coltrane's death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/giovanni_singleton_selected_byly/|title=giovanni singleton, selected by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon - Poetry Society of America|website=www.poetrysociety.org|access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref>

[[Cauleen Smith]]'s conceptual art exhibition ''Give It or Leave It'' featured two films, "Pilgrim" (2017) and "Sojourner" (2018), exploring Alice Coltrane's music and ashram.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/cauleensmith/|title=Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It|website=Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University|language=en-US|access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref>

==Discography==

===As leader===

'''Studio and live albums'''
* ''[[A Monastic Trio]]'' ([[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]], 1968)
* ''[[Huntington Ashram Monastery]]'' (Impulse!, 1969)
* ''[[Ptah, the El Daoud]]'' (Impulse!, 1970)
* ''[[Journey in Satchidananda]]'' (Impulse!, 1971)
* ''[[Universal Consciousness]]'' (Impulse!, 1971)<ref name="Inc.1971">{{cite magazine|title=Talent in Action|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_QgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|date= March 13, 1971|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=28–|issn=0006-2510}}</ref>
* ''[[World Galaxy]]'' (Impulse!, 1972)
* ''[[Lord of Lords (album)|Lord of Lords]]'' (Impulse!, 1973)
* ''[[Illuminations (Carlos Santana & Alice Coltrane album)|Illuminations]]'' (Columbia, 1974) with [[Carlos Santana]]
* ''[[Eternity (Alice Coltrane album)|Eternity]]'' ([[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros]], 1976)
* ''[[Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana]]'' (Warner Bros., 1977)
* ''[[Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album)|Transcendence]]'' (Warner Bros., 1977)
* ''[[Transfiguration (Alice Coltrane album)|Transfiguration]]'' (Warner Bros., 1978)
* ''[[Turiya Sings]]'' (Avatar Book Institute, 1982; reissued by Impulse!/Verve/UMe/Universal, 2021)
* ''[[Divine Songs (Swamini Turiyasangitananda album)|Divine Songs]]'' (Avatar, 1987)
* ''Infinite Chants'' (Avatar, 1990)
* ''Glorious Chants'' (Avatar, 1995)
* ''[[Translinear Light]]'' (Impulse!, 2004)
* ''[[Carnegie Hall '71]]'' (Hi Hat, 2018) also released as ''Live at Carnegie Hall, 1971''
* ''[[Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972]]'' (BCT, 2019)
* ''[[Kirtan: Turiya Sings]]'' (Impulse!/Verve/UMe/Universal, 2021; different mixes of [[Turiya Sings]] discovered by [[Ravi Coltrane]] in 2004)
* ''[[The Carnegie Hall Concert (Alice Coltrane album)|The Carnegie Hall Concert]]'' (Impulse!, 2024)

'''Compilations'''
* ''Reflection on Creation and Space (a Five Year View)'' (Impulse!, 1973)
* ''Priceless Jazz Collection'' ([[GRP Records|GRP]], 1998)
* ''Astral Meditations'' (Impulse!, 1999)
* ''The Impulse Story'' (Impulse!, 2006)
* ''Universal Consciousness / Lord of Lords'' (Impulse!, 2011)
* ''Huntington Ashram Monastery/World Galaxy'' (Impulse!, 2011)
* ''World Spiritual Classics: Volume I: [[The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda]]'' (Luaka Bop, 2017)
* ''Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings'' (Real Gone Music 2018)

===As co-leader===
* ''[[Cosmic Music]]'' (Impulse!, 1966–1968) with [[John Coltrane]]

===As sidewoman===
'''With [[John Coltrane]]'''
* ''[[Live at the Village Vanguard Again!]]'' (Impulse!, 1966)
* ''[[Live in Japan (John Coltrane album)|Live in Japan]]'' (Impulse!, 1966; released 1973)
* ''[[Offering: Live at Temple University]]'' (Resonance, 1966; released 2014)
* ''[[Stellar Regions]]'' (Impulse!, 1967; released 1995)
* ''[[Expression (album)|Expression]]'' (Impulse!, 1967)
* ''[[The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording]]'' (Impulse!, 1967; released 2001)
* ''[[Infinity (John Coltrane album)|Infinity]]'' (Impulse!, 1972)

'''With [[Terry Gibbs]]'''
* ''[[Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime]]'' ([[Mercury Records|Mercury]], 1963)
* ''Hootenanny My Way'' (Mercury, 1963)
* ''El Nutto'' ([[Limelight Records|Limelight]], 1964)
'''With [[Roland Kirk]]'''
* ''[[Left & Right (album)|Left & Right]]'' ([[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], 1968)
'''With [[McCoy Tyner]]'''
* ''[[Extensions (McCoy Tyner album)|Extensions]]'' ([[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]], 1970)
'''With [[Joe Henderson]]'''
* ''[[The Elements (Joe Henderson album)|The Elements]]'' ([[Milestone Records|Milestone]], 1973)
'''With [[Charlie Haden]]'''
* ''[[Closeness (album)|Closeness]]'' ([[Horizon Records|Horizon]], 1976)
'''With Various Artists'''
* ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]'' (GRP, 1994)

==See also==
* [[List of jazz arrangers]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.alicecoltrane.org}}
*{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000006143}}
*{{Discogs artist}}
*[https://thevedanticcenter.org/ The Vedantic Center]
*[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alice-coltranes-sai-anantam-ashram Sai Anantam] 
*[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alice-coltranes-sai-anantam-ashram Ashram]
*[https://youtube.com/watch?v=94P0pqqjiZ0 ASHRAM: The Spiritual Community of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda] (4:3 Feature Films documentary, 2019)

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