NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Alice Coltrane on 25 January 2023. Alice Coltrane has been played on NTS over 680 times, featured on 616 episodes and was first played on 8 December 2012.

Alice Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz pianist, harpist, organist, composer, and in her later years a swamini. She also occasionally sang and played tambura, harmonium and percussion.

An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late…