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... choir and his father played the violin. For several years, young Coltrane played the clarinet, however it wasn t his passion. It was only after he heard the great alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges playing with the Duke Ellington band on the radio, that he became enthusiastic about music. He dropped the clarinet to take up the alto saxophone, before long he had ... ...
... on Philadelphia's northwest side which overlooked Fairmont Park. It's at this time he enrolled at Granoff School of Music for further training on the tenor sax. He was dropped from Johnny Hodges' band when heroin began interfering with his music. Nineteen fifty five proved to be a big year for Coltrane. He picked up his nickname, "Trane," and married his wife Naima ... ...
... his mother was a member of the church choir. Coltrane in his early teens played the clarinet, but with little interest in it. It was the alto saxophone sound produced by Johnny Hodges playing in the Duke Ellington band on the radio that inspired him to drop the clarinet and begin playing the alto saxophone. Coltrane with the alto saxophone immediately became ... ...
... the war, he played in many smaller bands led by Joe Webb and King Kolax. Coltrane also played alto and soprano saxophone with bigger name bands like Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges. Parker and Coltrane both practiced vigorously. In the summer of 1937, after being totally humiliated at a jam session with Jo Jones, which resulted in a cymbal being thrown at him ... ...
... Philadelphia's northwest side, which overlooked Fairmont Park. It is at this time he enrolled at Granoff School of Music for further training on the tenor sax. He was dropped from Johnny Hodges' band when heroin began interfering with his music. Nineteen fifty-five proved to be a big year for Coltrane. He picked up his nickname, Trane, and married his wife Naima ... ...
