John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (23 September 1926-17 July 1967) was an American composer States. He played a musical instrument saxophone. Born in Hamlet, North Carolina. His career in the music world from 1946 to 1967.


John Coltrane Biograpahy
John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926, and raised in High Point, NC, attended William Penn High School (now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts). Beginning in December 1938 Coltrane aunts, grandparents, and father all died within months of each other, leaving John to be raised by his mother and cousins​​. In June 1943 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enrolled in the Navy in 1945, and played in the Navy jazz band when he was placed in Hawaii. Coltrane returned to civilian life in 1946 and began studying jazz theory with Philadelphia guitarist and composer Dennis Sandole. Coltrane continued under the supervision of Sandole until the early 1950s. Originally an altoist, during the time Coltrane began to play tenor sax with the band Eddie Vinson. Coltrane later referred to this point in his life as a time when "the wider area of listening opened up for me. There are many things that people like Hawk, and Ben, and Tab Smith did in the '40s that I do not understand, but I feel emotionally .


An important moment in the development of Coltrane's musical development that occurred on June 5, 1945 when he saw Charlie Parker perform for the first time. In a grim article in 1960 he recalled: "The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.



Parker became early idol, and they played together on occasion in the late 1940s.
Contemporary correspondence shows that Coltrane was known as "Trane" by this point, and that the music from some 1946 recording sessions have been played for Miles Davis-may seem both.


There are recordings of Coltrane from 1945. He is a member of groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic and Johnny Hodges in the early-to mid-1950s.