Why John Coltrane’s Short Life Left an Enduring Mark on Jazz

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Tomorrow marks exactly one hundred years since tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was born. He is still regarded as the absolute greatest. What made him...

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The divine music had a lover on earth and brought him far too soon: On September 23, 2026 John would have become "Trane" Coltrane 100. How could someone play like him?

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The most famous saxophonist in jazz history was born a century ago. He will be carried away by cancer 40 years later. In this short but dense life, let us listen to the last years: those where John Coltrane was the most creative, the most intense, but also the most misunderstood.