John Coltrane

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John Coltrane's 'Love Is Still Supreme' at Age 60 February 10, 2025

1.John Coltrane was a busy man in 1964.He was a jazz star operating at a frantic pace. But the public had no idea how frantic.“We couldn’t possibly put out all the records we were making,” producer Bob Thiele later boasted. “My contribution with Tran...

How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane March 12, 2024

After Johnny Hodges fired him, John Coltrane was back in Philadelphia and spottily employed—so spottily that he was without a job for New Year’s Eve of 1954. And so, out of pity, and in gratitude for some musical pointers Coltrane had given him, a tr...