John Coltrane
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- 69%Charlie Mingus
- 69%Wayne Shorter
- 64%Cole Porter
- 64%Duke Ellington
- 64%Horace Silver
- 64%Sonny Rollins
- 63%Thelonious Monk
- 62%Eric Dolphy
- 60%Lee Morgan
Biography
John William Coltrane, 23 September 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA, d. 17 July 1967, New York, USA. Coltrane grew up in the house of his maternal grandfather, Rev. William Blair (who gave him his middle name), a preacher and community spokesman. While he was taking clarinet lessons at school, his school band leader suggested his mother buy him an alto saxophone. In 1939 his grandfather and then his father died, and after finishing high school he joined his mother in Philadelphia. He spent a... Read more
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