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Celebrating Trane
More than a year ago, on this blog, I added a post about John Coltrane. It was a July entry, remembering the giant’s death in that month in 1967. Today I’m remembering Trane’s birth on September 23, 1926. Here’s the same post from last summer. Whether in life or in death, Coltrane looms large for [...]
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Tagged 1926, 1967, 23, be bop, frontiers, John Coltrane, July, My Favorite Things, quartet, saxophone, September
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Echoes of Trane
On this day in 1967 we lost a giant of jazz. John Coltrane is a personal hero of mine. As a saxophonist I’ve always been enthralled by the instrument’s superlative ability to mimic the human voice and one is hard pressed to find any other horn man in jazz who exemplified the saxophone’s potential for [...]
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Tagged be bop, free jazz, human voice, John Coltrane, My Favorite Things, quartet, saxophone
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