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Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:50 pm**

(CMJ) Legendary jazz pianist Alice Coltrane died Friday of respiratory failure at a hospital in West Hills, California. She was 69. Born Alice McLeod, she studied classical and jazz piano early in her life, taking lessons from revolutionary Bud Powell along the way, before she met her most-famous husband, John Coltrane.

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Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:19 pm**

damn that sucks, all the musicians and celebs are falling out this year

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:12 pm**

phew!
i thought a.c. slater died...

edit:no disrespect to the coltranes...

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:31 pm**

R.I.P.
I never got to see her play, but my friend just saw her with her son Ravi Coltrane and said it was amazing.

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:37 pm**

An absolutely amazing player and WAY underrated. Much, much more experimental then her husband. She had more to do with free jazz and setting groundwork for places like the Knitting Factory, John Zorn, etc.

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R.I.P. A C

R.I.P. A C