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    John Coltrane was an influential American jazz saxophonist who performed with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. Born in 1926 in North Carolina, he was inspired by Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington to take up saxophone after initially playing clarinet. Coltrane helped pioneer the free jazz movement and released seminal albums like Blue Train, Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme that demonstrated his signature sound on saxophone and leadership of the free jazz style.

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    John Coltrane was an influential American jazz saxophonist who performed with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. Born in 1926 in North Carolina, he was inspired by Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington to take up saxophone after initially playing clarinet. Coltrane helped pioneer the free jazz movement and released seminal albums like Blue Train, Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme that demonstrated his signature sound on saxophone and leadership of the free jazz style.

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    JOHN

    COLTRANE
    American Jazz
    Saxophonist

    Performed alongside:
    Dizzy Gillespie
    Miles Davis
    Thelonious Monk
    Duke Ellington
    Ornette Coleman
    Born in Hamlet, North Carolina in
    1926
    Father and grandfather were
    preachers, grew up around gospel
    Learned clarinet first, but
    inspired by Charlie Parker and
    Duke Ellington he picked up sax
    Joined the Philadelphia bebop
    scene in 1946 after the war

    Originally a bebop artist,


    Coltrane later became a
    pioneer of the FREE JAZZ
    Top Albums movement.

    Blue Train
    1958
    Giant Steps
    1960 Greatest Hits
    Coltrane "A Love Supreme" "India"
    1962 Pts. I-IV
    My Favorite Things
    "Giant Steps" "Naima"
    1961
    A Love Supreme
    1965 "Ascension" "Alabama"

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