StayJack artist file
John Coltrane
1926 — 1967
Tenor & soprano saxophone
Hard BopModalAvant-GardeSpiritual Jazz
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A short portrait
Coltrane treated practice as a form of inquiry. Across one concentrated decade, his sound moved from dense harmonic routes to expansive, searching forms without losing its unmistakable urgency.
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Timeline
Joins Miles Davis and begins a period of rapid artistic acceleration.
Blue Train captures his growing authority as a composer and leader.
Forms the classic quartet that becomes his central laboratory.
Records A Love Supreme, a suite of focus and devotion.
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Essential records
BLP 1577
John Coltrane
BlueTrain
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John Coltrane
Blue Train
A-77
John Coltrane
ALoveSupreme
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John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
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Selected listening
Blue Train
An official Spotify embed, selected as a place to begin.