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John Coltrane, (born Sept.
John Coltrane was an influential jazz saxophonist who revolutionized the genre in the 1950s-60s.
John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina.

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John Coltrane

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John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early years. His father, John Robert Coltrane, died in 1939, leaving twelve year-old John and his mother on their own.

His mother, Alice Blair Coltrane, moved to New Jersey to work as a domestic while John completed high school. John played first the clarinet, then alto saxophone in his high school band. His first musical influence was the tenor saxophonist Lester Young of Count Basie's band. In June of 1943, after graduation, Coltrane moved to Philadelphia to be closer to his mother.

After a yearlong stint in the Navy (1945-46), Coltrane began playing gigs in and around Philadelphia. During this time he became involved in drug and alcohol use, vices that would follow him throughout his career and ultimately lead to his death.

In late 1949 Coltrane was invited to play alto sax with Dizzy Gillespie's band; the first recording ses

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My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album)

For the 2007 live album, see My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport.

1961 studio album by John Coltrane

My Favorite Things is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in March 1961 on Atlantic Records.^[1]^[2] It was the first album to feature Coltrane playing soprano saxophone. An edited version of the title track became a hit single that gained popularity in 1961 on radio.^[3] The record became a major commercial success.

Background

In March 1960, while on tour in Europe, Miles Davis purchased a soprano saxophone for Coltrane. While the instrument had been used in the early days of jazz (notably by Sidney Bechet) it had become rare by the 1950s with the exception of Steve Lacy. Intrigued by its capabilities, Coltrane began playing it at his summer club dates.^[5]

After leaving the Davis band, Coltrane, for his first regular bookings at New York's Jazz Gallery in the summer of 1960, assembled the first version of the John Coltrane Quartet. The lineup

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from Raga Mala, the autobiography of Ravi Shankar, published in 1997:

Dick Bock had often spoken to me about John Coltrane over the previous few years: about how he was a fan of mine, and had all my records. At some point during the winter of 1964-65, when I was back in America giving something like forty-two recitals on another coast-to-coast tour . . . Dick brought him to meet me in New York.
. . . When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna's book's. For a jazz musician to go to the other extreme, especially in those days, was a pleasant surprise.
. . . We met again next time I came to New York, for a short tour in 1966, when we fixed a date the following year for him to come to LA for a few weeks to learn properly from me. Sadly he died before then.
the accounts below show that 'six months earlier' should have been six years earlier....
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