Coltrane
Americannoun
noun
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Coltrane singlehandedly made the soprano saxophone the popular jazz instrument it is today, exceeding Sonny Rollins’s influence on tenor saxophone and replacing Charlie Parker as jazz’s most imitated saxophone player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The photos humanize Coltrane while intensifying his myth as someone in holy communion with the transcendent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Where Parker was the jazz-saxophone genius who succumbed to his excesses, Coltrane transcended his.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
As the younger Coltrane observes, the images of his father and mother, Alice, both at the piano, are among the collection’s most touching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Your father came from the same town and went to the same high school as John Coltrane, but he was ahead of Coltrane in age.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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