• • • • • • Website John William Coltrane, also known as ' Trane' (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), was an American and composer. Working in the and idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of in jazz and was later at the forefront of.

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He led at least fifty recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter and pianist. As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. Coltrane influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant saxophonists in music history. He received many posthumous awards and recognitions, including by the as Saint John William Coltrane and a special in 2007.

His second wife was pianist and their son,, is also a saxophonist. Coltrane's first recordings were made when he was a sailor. Saint John William Coltrane Born ( 1926-09-23)September 23, 1926 Hamlet, North Carolina, US Died July 17, 1967 ( 1967-07-17) (aged 40) Huntington, New York, US Venerated in All Artists Early life and career (1926–1954) [ ] Coltrane was born in his parents' apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue, on September 23, 1926. His father was John R.

Coltrane and his mother was Alice Blair. He grew up in, attending (now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts). Beginning in December 1938 Coltrane's aunt, grandparents, and father all died within a few months of one another, leaving John to be raised by his mother and a close cousin. In June 1943 he moved to.

In September of that year his mother bought him his first saxophone, an alto. Coltrane played the and the in a community band before taking up the alto saxophone during high school. He had his first professional gigs in early to mid-1945 – a 'cocktail lounge trio,' with piano and guitar. To avoid being drafted by the Army, Coltrane enlisted in the Navy on August 6, 1945, the day the first U.S.

Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. He was trained as an apprentice seaman at Sampson Naval Training Station in upstate New York before he was shipped to Pearl Harbor, where he was stationed at Manana Barracks, the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world. [ ] By the time he got to Hawaii, in late 1945, the Navy was already rapidly downsizing.

Coltrane's musical talent was quickly recognized, though, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musicians rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. As the Melody Masters was an all-white band, however, Coltrane was treated merely as a guest performer to avoid alerting superior officers of his participation in the band. He continued to perform other duties when not playing with the band, including kitchen and security details. By the end of his service, he had assumed a leadership role in the band. His first recordings, an informal session in Hawaii with Navy musicians, occurred on July 13, 1946.

Coltrane played alto saxophone on a selection of jazz standards and bebop tunes. After being discharged from his duties in the Navy, as a seaman first class in August 1946, Coltrane returned to Philadelphia, where he 'plunged into the heady excitement of the new music and the blossoming bebop scene.' Langame Exe.

After touring with, he joined a Philly-based band led by, who was introduced to Coltrane's playing by his former Navy buddy, the trumpeter William Massey, who had played with Coltrane in the Melody Masters. In Philadelphia after the war, he studied jazz theory with guitarist and composer and continued under Sandole's tutelage through the early 1950s. Originally an altoist, in 1947 Coltrane also began playing tenor saxophone with the Band. Coltrane later referred to this point in his life as a time when 'a wider area of listening opened up for me.