Was a visionary pianist, composer, and bandleader who spent the majority of her life seeking spiritually in both music and her private life. While her early years as a professional were spent as a hard-swinging, in-demand pianist of the Detroit school during the '50s, it was her marriage to and musical partnership with that established her during the New Thing years of the '60s and beyond. After her husband's death,, a gifted arranger as well as pianist and harpist, released seven solo albums on Impulse! During the latter part of the decade and into the '70s -- including (featuring ) and, which wove together the strains of her musical thinking: modal jazz, gospel hymns, blues, Hindi devotional music, and 20th century classical sonorities.

Her move to Warner Bros. In 1975 only deepened that signature as she played the harp, the piano, or Wurlitzer with the top-flight musicians of her day on albums such as and the live. Alice McLeod began studying classical music at the age of seven. She attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School with pianist and drummer.

As a young woman she played in church and was a fine bebop pianist in the bands of such local musicians as. McLeod traveled to Paris in 1959 to study with. She met while touring and recording with around 1962-1963; she married the saxophonist in 1965 and joined his band -- replacing -- one year later. Stayed with 's band until his death in 1967; on his albums and, her playing is characterized by rhythmically ambiguous arpeggios and a pulsing thickness of texture. Long concerned with spiritual matters, (whose spiritual name was 'Turiyasangitananda') founded a center for Eastern spiritual study called the Vedanta Center in 1975. She began a long hiatus from public and recorded performances, though her 1981 appearance on 's radio series was released by Jazz Alliance. In 1987, she led a quartet that included her sons and in a tribute concert at the Cathedral of St.

John the Divine in New York City. Returned to public performance in 1998 at a Town Hall Concert with and again at Joe's Pub in Manhattan in 2002.

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She began recording again in 2000 and eventually issued the stellar on the Verve label in 2004. Produced by, it featured on piano, organ, and synthesizer, in a host of playing situations with luminary collaborators that included not only her sons, but also,,,. After the release of, she began playing live more frequently, including a date in Paris shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and a brief tour in fall 2006 with.

Died on January 12, 2007 of respiratory failure at Los Angeles' West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. During her long time away from the spotlight, spent her time on her Vedanta Center. By 1983, she had expanded it to become the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram in the Agoura Hills, outside of Los Angeles -- home to a spiritual community. Though she was not active in the jazz world, quietly recorded music at the ashram and distributed it to her community's members on four privately pressed -- but professionally recorded -- cassette tapes from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s:,,, and Glorious Chants. The cassettes represented the expressive side of 's practice, displaying an intensely original sound inspired by the gospel music from the Detroit churches she grew up in, Indian devotional music and chants, and of course, improvisation, played on harp, eastern percussion, synthesizers, organs, and strings (she wrote the arrangements) accompanied by the and membership. They also display singing for the first time.

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Luaka Bop sought out the original masters, assisted by 's children. Enlisting original engineer, the label assembled a compilation from the four tapes. Entitled, it was released in May of 2017 in remembrance of the tenth anniversary of her death and to commemorate her 80th birthday. The package included a lengthy liner essay by jazz historian, 's Master's thesis, interviews with family, ashram members, and colleagues, and a remembrance by in conversation with.