Coltrane

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He says his music is influenced by Miles Davis, John Coltrane and James Brown, explaining that he considers his style "kaleidoscopic".

From Barron's

There is the It Club, owned by a Black gangster and visited by everyone from Miles to Coltrane to Monk, who recorded an album there.

From Los Angeles Times

But I was in New York in 1957 when the Five Spot on the Lower East Side was filled for five months, starting in July, with lay jazz enthusiasts but also with many visiting musicians who marveled at the continuous daring adventures of pianist-composer Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane.

From The Wall Street Journal

What I think I love the most about this four-CD set is that there are no less than seven — both studio and live — versions of “John Coltrane Stereo Blues” on here, which is truly exceptional when you consider that the album version is almost nine minutes long and there is no version on this set that is shorter than that.

From Salon

Singers from Sarah Vaughan to Mahalia Jackson and Peggy Lee have drawn out its cradle-song calm, while such jazz instrumentalists as Stan Getz and John Coltrane have often quickened its pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal