Alice Coltrane

LOS ANGELES -- Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer and composer who was inextricably linked with the adventurous musical improvisations of her late husband, the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, has died. She was 69.

Coltrane died Friday at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, according to family friends. She had been in frail health for some time and died of respiratory failure.

Though known to many for her contributions to jazz and early new age music, Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now in Agoura, Calif. A guru of growing repute, she also served as the swami of the San Fernando Valley's first Hindu Temple, in Chatsworth.

Shacknasty Jack

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...with thanks to mIEKAL aND

The paper screen
behind which our hero Jack
climbed into our zubon

Please may we appease
and RIP, Shacknasty Jack

Robert Anton Wilson 4:50AM 1/11/07

Thanks for the Note, mIEKAL aND.... all hail Eris

PS The schwa of Bob!
schwa [OED]
The central vowel sound (), typically occurring in weakly stressed syllables, as in the final syllable of ‘sofa’ and the first syllable of ‘along’; = SHEVA 2. Occas., the symbol of an inverted ‘e’ used to represent this sound. Also attrib. and Comb.