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His father was John R. Coltrane [8] and his mother was Alice Blair. [9] He grew up in High Point, North Carolina, and attended William Penn High School. While in high school, Coltrane played clarinet and alto horn in a community band [10] before switching to the saxophone, after being influenced by the likes of Lester Young and Johnny Hodges.
Coltrane and his quartet then embarked on a one-week tour of Europe, playing at the sixth International Jazz Festival at Juan-les-Pins in Antibes, France on July 26 and 27, followed by a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on July 28, and winding up with a performance at a jazz festival in Comblain-la-Tour, Belgium on August 1. [2]
My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport is a compilation album by jazz musician John Coltrane released by Impulse! in 2007. It brings together tracks from performances by Coltrane's quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 7, 1963, and July 2, 1965.
Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things is a posthumous album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1969.The album juxtaposes two tracks ("My Favorite Things" and "I Want to Talk About You") recorded live at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival with a single track ("Selflessness") recorded in a studio in Los Angeles in 1965.
Track Length Artist Composer Date Studio Location Engineer Notes Personnel "Cherryco" 6:45: John Coltrane and Don Cherry: D. Cherry: 1960-06-28: Atlantic Recording Studios
So Many Things: The European Tour 1961 is a 4–CD compilation album by American saxophonist John Coltrane containing music recorded live during the 1961 European tour, which took place under the auspices of Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic programs.
The recordings were made by the radio station WABC-FM, in 1965, for a Friday radio show called "Portraits in Jazz" with Alan Grant (né Abraham Grochowsky; 1919–2012). ). Coltrane's group played at the Half Note from March 19–April 4 [3] and again from May 4–9 [4] of that