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ALBUMJohn Coltrane Quartet + Stan Getz + Oscar Peterson: Live Dusseldorf 1960 (Live Restauración 2024)John Coltrane
Albums by John Coltrane
ALBUMBlue WorldJohn Coltrane
ALBUMBoth Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Version)John Coltrane
ALBUMStandard Coltrane (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)John Coltrane
ALBUMWheelin' And Dealin' (Reissue 2006 / Remastered 1991)John Coltrane & Frank Wess
ALBUMFirst Meditations (for quartet)John Coltrane
ALBUMInfinityJohn Coltrane
ALBUMSun ShipJohn Coltrane
ALBUMTransition (2012 Remaster)John Coltrane
ALBUMTransitionJohn Coltrane
ALBUMCosmic MusicJohn Coltrane
John Coltrane's Popular Music Videos
Naima (Live)
John Coltrane
Impressions (Live)
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Impressions (Visualizer)
John Coltrane
Untitled Original 11383 (Visualizer)
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Artist Playlists
John Coltrane Essentials
The fiery soul of a deeply spiritual jazz boundary-breaker.
John Coltrane: The Session Musicians
Where Trane got his chops together.
John Coltrane: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
John Coltrane: Deep Cuts
New, intense heights with the classic quartet and explorations with other artists.
Artist Biography
The influence of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane remains unparalleled. Born in Hamlet, North Carolina in 1926, he enjoyed a meteoric ascent in Philadelphia following his discharge from the Navy in 1946. Credited with innovating modal and free jazz, Coltrane was also distinguished by his deeply personal style and quest for spiritual enlightenment. Although he recorded a self-titled solo album in 1957, his brilliance was evident alongside trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk, with Coltrane's chordal improvisation inspiring critic Ira Gitler to coin the term "sheets of sound." Coltrane's knack for unleashing flurries of notes reached new heights on 1960 album Giant Steps. His quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones released the modal jazz sensation My Favorite Things in 1961, the same year he moved from Atlantic to Impulse! Records and began drawing on Indian classical music and the free jazz taking root in New York City. He worked feverishly over the next six years, developing an electrifying rapport with his working band and collaborators like Eric Dolphy and Pharoah Sanders as he pushed from 1965 stunner A Love Supreme (a through-composed suite that captured his search for the divine) to a series of albums that privileged improvisation over compositional frameworks. Coltrane carried on with these explorations until he succumbed to cancer at age 40.
Hometown
Hamlet, NC, United States
Genre
Jazz