Life_And_Music_Of_John_Coltrane

Life And Music Of John Coltrane John Coltrane was born in born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926. John Coltrane was an only child. His father, John was a tailor who played the violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. Coltrane soon moved with his family to the town of High Point, where his grandfather was the pastor of the A.M.E. Zion Church. His family was very religious and this instilled in him a deep devotion in religion. At the age of twelve Coltrane's received his first instrument a clarinet which he played for hours on end, that same year Coltrane's father died. A year after Coltrane's father died his mother decided to move away to North to Atlantic City to find a work. Young Coltrane stayed in North Carolina with relatives. By his senior year, he had learned to play a borrowed alto saxophone and was getting recognition from his classmates and even the locals. Work was hard to find in most of the Southern states in 1943, so when John Coltrane graduated he and coltrane, music, jazz, one, john, style, pg, same, musicians, miles, life, group, time, through, things, point, philadelphia, live, just, even, coltranes, year, work, way, trane, that's, tenor, played, play, north, new, musician, mother, later, heroin