Microsoft PowerPoint

Slide Master Project / Arts Integration

1. Start Microsoft PowerPoint

2. Choose the View menu and Slide Master
3. Click on the top slide on the left
4. Start Internet Explorer
5. Go to: http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/coltrane%2016.jpg
6. Right click and save the picture to My Pictures
7. Return to PowerPoint and click on Background Styles and choose Format Background
8. Choose Picture or Texture Fill
9. Choose Insert from File
10. Go to My Pictures and click on the picture you just saved
11. Click on Picture
12. Click on Recolor and choose Accent Color 3 Dark
13. Change the Brightness to -68% and the Contrast to -61% - click on Close
14. In the Edit Theme group, click on Colors and choose New Theme Colors
15. Change all Text and Background colors to a white or beige color
16. Click on Font and choose the Civic Theme
17. Click on Rename and change the theme’s name to “Coltrane”
18. Close the Master View and return to Normal View

Follow the instructions below to create a PowerPoint that will serve as a timeline of the life of John
Coltrane

1) The first slide should be a title slide with the title “John Coltrane”, followed by your name.
2) Use the information below to fill out your PowerPoint. Use Title and Content layout for each
slide. Type the year in the Title box and the fact in the box below it.
3) Insert the sound file for Acknowledgement by John Coltrane on the title slide. Make sure that it
is hidden during the show, plays automatically, and plays across slides. There are Coltrane sound
files available in your PowerPoint folder.
4) On the very last slide, download a video of Coltrane performing Naima and insert it into the
PowerPoint. Make sure that it plays automatically. The file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~kaster/Music_Intro.htm . Remember to right-click and choose Save
Target As to download the file.

Powerpoint Content

- 1926: John Coltrane is born on September 23 in Hamlet, North Carolina.

- 1941: John Coltrane's mother moves to Philadelphia.
- 1941: Coltrane receives a clarinet as a gift and he joins community and school bands in High
Point, North Carolina. Later in high school, after hearing Johnny Hodges, Coltrane decides to
play the alto saxophone. Lester Young is among his favorite musicians.
- 1943: John Coltrane graduates high school and moves to Philadelphia. In the fall, Coltrane
attends the Ornstein School of Music to study alto sax.
- 1945: John Coltrane is drafted and plays clarinet with the Navy Band in Hawaii.
- 1946: After his discharge from the Navy, Coltrane returns to Philadelphia and works in rhythm
and blues bands.
- 1951: John Coltrane moves back to Philadelphia and enters the Granoff School of Music to study
the saxophone and music theory with Dennis Sandole.
- 1953: Coltrane joins the Johnny Hodges band. Hodges was Coltrane's original inspiration for
switching to the saxophone.
- 1954: John Coltrane meets Juanita Grubbs, who goes by her Muslim first name, Naima. The
couple will marry next year.
- 1955: Miles Davis hires Coltrane to play tenor sax in his new Hard Bop quintet.
- 1956: Tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins record "Tenor Madness."
- Add a blank slide here with a picture of the album cover for “Tenor Madness”
- 1957: Coltrane kicks his heroin habit "cold turkey" by locking himself in a room in his mother's
house in Philadelphia with only cigarettes and water. At the same time he also stops drinking
alcohol. During this critical period Coltrane devotes his life to God.
- 1957: John Coltrane joins pianist Thelonious Monk's quartet, working with bassist Wilbur Ware
and drummer Philly Joe Jones.
- 1957: Prestige signs Coltrane to his first record contract.
- 1958: Coltrane records Soultrane, Black Pearls and Settin' the Pace for Prestige.
- 1959: Coltrane records "Giant Steps" with pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Paul Chambers and
drummer Art Taylor.
- 1961: Coltrane makes his last recording with trumpeter Miles Davis, "Someday My Prince Will
Come" on Columbia Records.
- 1961: Coltrane records Impressions and Live at the Village Vanguard (Impulse!) during 1961
Vanguard performances.
- Add a blank slide here with a picture of the album cover for “Live At the Village Vanguard”
- 1961: After Reggie Workman leaves the band, Coltrane forms his classic quartet with McCoy
Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones.
- 1961: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman record for Impulse Records.
- 1963: John Coltrane meets Alice McCleod, whom he will marry in 1966.
- 1963: Coltrane records "Alabama" in reaction to the church bombings.
- 1964: Coltrane records "A Love Supreme" on Impulse! Records.
- Add a blank slide here with a picture of the album cover for “A Love Supreme”
- 1965: In one mammoth swath of recording activity, Coltrane produces Ascension, Om, and Kulu
Se Mama.
- 1966: Coltrane marries Alice McCleod, who replaces McCoy Tyner as Coltrane's pianist.
- 1967: In the final stages of developing liver cancer, Coltrane records three records which see
public release: Stellar Regions, Expression, and Interstellar Space.
- 1967: John Coltrane dies of liver cancer on July 17 at the age of 40. Ornette Coleman and Albert
Ayler perform at his funeral..
- On the very last slide, download a video of Coltrane performing Naima and insert it into the
PowerPoint. Make sure that it plays automatically. The file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~kaster/Music_Intro.htm . Remember to right-click and choose
Save Target As to download the file.