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John Coltrane

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Live in '60, '61 & '65

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane provides an epic 95-minute overview of a true giant of 20th-century music. Three separate shows reveal Coltrane’s ascending creative arc from hard bop innovator in 1960 to consummate bandleader in 1961 to unrivalled jazz visionary in 1965. Part of the Coda Gone Too Soon Theme.

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Coltrane’s Universe

How often, in a pre-meme age, was it possible to track the evolution of a language? There are many possible answers to that rhetorical, and one resides here: in a small cache of footage depicting John Coltrane at three pivotal moments in the first half of the 1960s. Coltrane — the magnificent tenor and soprano saxophonist, indefatigable bandleader-composer and insatiable creative pathfinder — compressed a lifetime’s worth of artistic development into his tragically brief career.

1 Min Read | Nate Chinen

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