Coltrane
Proper noun
Meaning
Coltrane (plural Coltranes)
A surname from Irish.
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According to Coltrane, the goal of a musician was to understand these forces, control them, and elicit a response from the audience.
A former home, the John Coltrane House in Philadelphia, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999.
After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.
After recording with the quartet over the next few months, Coltrane invited Pharoah Sanders to join the band in September 1965.
Around the end of his tenure with Davis, Coltrane had begun playing soprano, an unconventional move considering the instrument's neglect in jazz at the time.
At the same time, Davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his "first great quintet": John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.