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“I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be.” – John Coltrane

Saxophonist John Coltrane was not a child musical prodigy but instead was the eternal student who diligently studied the sound and technique of his predecessors: Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon and Coleman Hawkins.

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He devoured theory under the tutelage of bandleader-composer-musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. He sought ideas in the compositions of Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Negro spirituals and the ragas of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar.

He was the investigative autodidactic who read theoretical books on music, mathematics, science, philosophy, the occult and religion. And he tirelessly practiced and played so hard, at home, between long live sets and during other player’s solos, that at times his reeds were red with blood.

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