... career in the late 1940's playing with several different rhythm and blues groups in small bars and clubs around Philadelphia. At bars, it was a common practice at this time for musicians to "walk the bar", which was to walk on top of the bar while playing their instrument. During the ... Gillespie, along with Parker, had been a very influential and important figure in the bebop movement. After joining Gillespie's big band, Coltrane finally felt some sense of stability in his life. However, after two years of playing with Gillespie, he was asked to leave because of his unreliability due to...

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• Grade Level: High School

... decided to move to Philadelphia, where one of the friends' brothers already lived. Coltrane would live in Philadelphia off and on until about 1957. His decision to migrate north was a common one, and Coltrane did indeed find work as a laborer in a sugar-refining factory. A couple of months later he enrolled in the Ornstein School of Music on 19th and Spruce Streets ... of a sentence and move in both directions at the same time. About Schoenberg's 12-note system, he said: "Damn the rules. It's the feeling that counts. You play all 12 notes anyway." A quote that I personally feel that exe...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... decided to move to Philadelphia, where one of the friends' brothers already lived. Coltrane would live in Philadelphia off and on until about 1957. His decision to migrate north was a common one, and Coltrane did indeed find work as a laborer in a sugar-refining factory. A couple of months later he enrolled in the Ornstein School of Music on 19th and Spruce Streets ... of a sentence and move in both directions at the same time. About Schoenberg's 12-note system, he said: Damn the rules. It's the feeling that counts. You play all 12 notes anyway. A quote that I personally feel that exemp...

• Word Count: 1847
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School