His first recordings, an informal session in Hawaii with navy musicians, occurred on July 13, 1946. By the end of his service, he had assumed a leadership role in the band. He continued to perform other duties when not playing with the band, including kitchen and security details. Coltrane’s musical talent was quickly recognized, though, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musicians rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. By the time he got to Hawaii, in late 1945, the Navy was already rapidly downsizing. He was trained as an apprentice seaman at Sampson Naval Training Station in upstate New York before he was shipped to Pearl Harbor, where he was stationed at Manana Barracks, the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world. To avoid being drafted by the Army, Coltrane enlisted in the Navy on August 6, 1945, the day the first U.S.
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He had his first professional gigs in early to mid-1945 – a “cocktail lounge trio”, with piano and guitar. In September of that year his mother bought him his first saxophone, an alto. In June 1943 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He stayed in High Point until after high school (William Penn High School now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts).īeginning in December 1938 Coltrane’s aunt, grandparents, and father all died within a few months of one another, leaving John to be raised by his mother and a close cousin. John Coltrane’s family moved to High Point, North Carolina shortly after he was born. Coltrane and his mother was Alice Coltrane.
John Coltrane was born in his parents’ apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue, Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926. John Coltrane was a remarkable man and a ‘hard practicer,’ as one of my teachers once called me.
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