Coltrane

[kohl-treyn]

noun

1. John (William), 1926–67, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.

Coltrane

/ kɒlˈtreɪn /

noun

1. John ( William ). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer

Example Sentences

Robbie Coltrane, who played half-giant gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the movies, died in October 2022 of multiple organ failure after two years of illness.

From Los Angeles Times

Alongside music by Laura Nyro, Alice Coltrane’s elegiac “There’s Something About John Coltrane” anchors the choreography, which features a Black female solo dancer, costumed in regal all-white, who moves from pantomimes of brutal labor under captivity to ecstatic but brooding liberation silhouettes that wheel and wallow in the restoration of her sovereign identity.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.

From Los Angeles Times

Alice Coltrane’s life and legacy is a series of those callings.

From Los Angeles Times

“Cry” and cries aside, her work is in and out of revival, while John Coltrane’s is a cultural metronome such that even his inaccessible-for-some late-period recordings and live performances — during which he squealed and screamed his way toward another realm of psalm — are embraced by critics and jazz fans who dismiss the jazz avant-garde, his free playing their only exemption.

From Los Angeles Times