What was John Coltrane like personally?

As a kid, he was into pulp comics and pulp magazines, according to an interview with a childhood friend with whom he made amateur adventure comics in the vein of Flash Gordon and Doc Savage, if I remember right. read more

While doing my DMA in Seattle, another student did a dissertation with a long interview with McCoy Tyner, Mr Coltrane's pianist in the early '60's. He told her that Mr Coltrane was quiet, seemingly pre-occupied, but soft spoken and gentle. His opinion seemed to be that John Coltrane was a very nice person. read more

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, is a 2016 American film directed by John Scheinfeld. Narrated by Denzel Washington, the film chronicles the life of Coltrane in his own words, and includes interviews with such admirers as Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Bill Clinton, and Cornel West. read more

John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926, in Hamlet, North Carolina. During the 1940s and '50s, he continued to develop his craft as a saxophonist and composer, working with famed musicians/bandleaders Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. read more