He never saw combat, but he continued to play music and, in fact, made his first recording with a quartet of other sailors on July 13, 1946. In 1945, he was drafted into the navy and stationed in Hawaii. While taking jobs outside music, Coltrane briefly attended the Ornstein School of Music and studied at Granoff Studios. Eventually, the family was reunited there. During World War II, his mother, aunt, and cousin moved north to New Jersey to seek work, leaving him with family friends in 1943, when he graduated from high school, he too headed north, settling in Philadelphia. The same year, he joined a community band in which he played clarinet and E flat alto horn he took up the alto saxophone in his high school band. His mother worked as a domestic to support the family. Shortly after he graduated from grammar school in 1939, his father, his grandparents, and his uncle died, leaving him to be raised in a family consisting of his mother, his aunt, and his cousin. Zion Church and moved his family, including his infant grandson, to High Point, NC, where Coltrane grew up. Two months after his birth, his maternal grandfather, the Reverend William Blair, was promoted to presiding elder in the A.M.E. Coltrane, a tailor and amateur musician, and Alice (Blair) Coltrane. No one, however, questions Coltrane’s almost religious commitment to jazz or doubts his significance in the history of the music.Ĭoltrane was the son of John R.
There remains a critical divide between the adherents of his earlier, more conventional (if still highly imaginative) work and his later, more experimental work. Since Coltrane was a protean player who changed his style radically over the course of his career, this has made for much confusion in his discography and in appreciations of his playing.
It seems amazing that his period of greatest activity was so short, not only because he recorded prolifically, but also because, taking advantage of his fame, the record companies that recorded him as a sideman in the 1950s frequently reissued those recordings under his name and there has been a wealth of posthumously released material as well. Despite a relatively brief career (he first came to notice as a sideman at age 29 in 1955, formally launched a solo career at 33 in 1960, and was dead at 40 in 1967), saxophonist John Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz.
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