The John Coltrane Quartet The Miles Davis Sextet The Miles Davis Quintet Thelonious Monk Septet Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra Dizzy Gillespie Sextet Earl Bostic And His Orchestra Art Blakey’s Big Band Paul Chambers Sextet The John Coltrane Sextet Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra East Coast All-Stars John Coltrane Quintet The Prestige All Stars John Coltrane Trio Miles And Coltrane Quintet George Russell Orchestra The Ray Draper Quintet Elmo Hope Sextet Oscar Pettiford & His All Stars Gene Ammons’ All Stars Wilbur Harden-Tommy Flanagan Quintet Wilbur Harden Sextet John Coltrane Orchestra Tenor Conclave Tadd Dameron Quartet Paul Quinichette-John Coltrane Quintet

ex The Thelonious Monk Quartet, The Red Garland Quintet, Cecil Taylor Quintet

American saxophonist and jazz composer.

Born: 23 September 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA.
Died: 17 July 1967 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA (aged 40) from liver cancer.

John Coltrane was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. His early recordings capture a musician in the relatively conventional confines of bebop and hardbop, but his enduring legacy primarily rests on the modal jazz pioneered by his classic quartet (1960-64) and by free jazz explorations late in his career.

He recorded more than fifty albums as a leader and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, performing with other giants of jazz like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Coltrane received numerous awards including a posthumous Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 for his ’masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz’.

As his life progressed, his music and outlook became increasingly spiritual. After his death he was proclaimed as a saint by the African Orthodox church that took his name.

Coltrane’s second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane; their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist.