Today we pay tribute to #AliceColtrane on her birthday (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) She also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other major record labels. She was the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. Alice McLeod was born in Alabama, and grew up in a musical household in Detroit, Michigan. Her