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John Coltrane The ever growing love that I have for jazz was started because a friend told me to buy a John Coltrane CD the summer before my freshman year in college. For as long as I have known my friend he has always been interested in music and has played drums for the majority of his life. He had a few albums of Coltrane 's and would always tell me I would love them. I remember the first time I heard that piercing voice that Coltrane gets out of his tenor saxophone. I took a trip out to Amoeba records with some friends and the first place I went was into the jazz room to find a John Coltrane album. Not knowing anything about him except that I liked his sound I bought the album The Art of John Coltrane. I got home and put it in my CD player and just sat in amazement as I listened to the album. I absolutely fell in love with the first song on that album and that is why I chose it to be the first on the CD I made to accompany this paper. The song is titled "Moment 's Notice" and appeared originally on the album Blue Train. It just grabs you right from the start of the song and I also just absolutely love the…I guess you could call it the chorus in the song because they keep going back to it throughout the piece. My friend let me borrow his Coltrane CDs over the summer and the pleasure that I received from hearing Coltrane play only grew. One of the albums that he gave me was Newport '63 one of Coltrane 's live albums that was released. The CD has only four tracks on it but it is just about an hour of mind blowing jazz. John William Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on the twenty third of September in 1926. He started playing the Clarinet but soon fell in love with jazz and decided to switch over to the alto saxophone (Wikipedia). He played the alto saxophone until about 1950 when he decided to switch over to the tenor saxophone. It was with the tenor saxophone that he made his name known to the masses. Coltrane was in small


Cited: Wikipedia. John Coltrane. 12 Dec 2005. Online. 12 Dec 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane DeLuke, R.J. Ravi Coltrane: His Own Man, His Own Thing. 8 Oct 2003. Online. 12 Dec 2005. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=391 Larson, Thomas E. History and Tradition of Jazz. United State of America: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005. Myers, John John Coltrane: Hamlet 's jazz son. 15 Feb 2002. Online. 12 Dec 2005. http://johnmyers.com/coltrane.html Price, Emmett G. The Development of John Coltrane 's Concept of Spirituality and Its Expression in Music. Online. 11 Dec 2005. http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/95journal/EmmetPrice.html Troupe, Quincy John Coltrane American Jazz Musician 1926.1967. 2000. Online. 12 Dec 2005. http://www.jazzandbluesmasters.com/Coltrane.htm
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