John Coltrane

~ Person

Relationships

eponymous member of:	John Coltrane Quintet (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone) John Coltrane Sextet (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone)
member of:	Art Blakey Big Band Miles Davis Quintet (US jazz group, active 1955–58 and 1964–68) The Red Garland Quintet Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra Elmo Hope Sextet Thelonious Monk Septet (tenor saxophone) The Prestige All Stars George Russell Orchestra The Good Humor Six Thelonious Monk Quartet (in 1957: tenor saxophone) Miles Davis Sextet (from 1958-01 until 1960-04: tenor saxophone)
member of (as “Blue Train”):	Cecil Taylor Quintet (tenor saxophone)
original eponymous member of:	John Coltrane Trio (saxophone) The John Coltrane Sextet John Coltrane Quartet (from 1959 until 1965: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone)
children:	Arjuna John Coltrane Jr. Oranyan Coltrane Ravi Coltrane (from 1965-08-06 to present)
married:	Alice Coltrane (from 1965 until 1967-07-17)

creative position:	Coltrane Records
founded and has personal publisher:	Jowcol Music
signed by:	Prestige (American jazz label) (from 1957 until 1961) impulse! (jazz label active during the 60s‐70s, now property of Universal Music Group, mainly used as a reissue label) (from 1961 until 1967)

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Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/97545 [info]
biographies:	http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=218 [info]
official homepages:	http://www.johncoltrane.com/ [info]
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BBC Music:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/b625448e-bf4a-41c3-a421-72ad46cdb831 [info] (until 2020-11-19)
social networking:	https://twitter.com/JohnColtrane [info] https://www.facebook.com/johncoltrane [info]
YouTube channels:	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH4T2kv7rr9qnuP0DOXLxMA [info]
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lyrics page:	https://genius.com/artists/John-coltrane [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000175553 [info]
SoundCloud:	https://soundcloud.com/johncoltraneofficial [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/2281 [info]
VIAF ID:	61731379 [info]
Wikidata:	Q7346 [info]
Songkick:	https://www.songkick.com/artists/160815 [info]
setlist.fm:	https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/john-coltrane-bd6b596.html [info]
Last.fm:	https://www.last.fm/music/John+Coltrane [info]
Bandsintown:	https://www.bandsintown.com/a/51206 [info]
streaming page:	https://music.apple.com/us/artist/120199 [info] https://tidal.com/artist/9042 [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
1961-05-23	Greensleeves (alternate take)			John Coltrane Quartet	10:53
1961-05-23	Song of the Underground Railroad			John Coltrane Quartet	6:45
	Africa			John Coltrane Quartet	14:07
	Africa			John Coltrane Quartet	16:29
	Africa			John Coltrane Quartet	16:31
	Africa (alternate take)			John Coltrane Quartet	16:06
	Blues Minor			John Coltrane Quartet	7:21
	Blues Minor			John Coltrane Quartet	7:19
	Impressions			The Cannon-Lechner Big Band	5:29
	instruments
1949-11-21	I Can't Remember		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	2:53
1949-11-21	Say When		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	3:13
1949-11-21	Tally-Ho		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	3:14
1949-11-21	You Stole My Wife You Horsethief		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	3:10
1950-01-09	Carambola		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	2:56
1950-01-09	Coast to Coast		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	3:19
1950-01-09	Honeysuckle Rose		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	3:06
1950-01-09	Oo-La-La		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	2:52
1951-03-01	Birk's Works		tenor saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie	3:06
1951-03-01	Birk's Works		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie	3:06
1951-03-01	Tin Tin Daeo		tenor saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie Sextet	2:42
1951-03-01	Tin Tin Deo		tenor saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie	2:40
1951-03-01	Tin Tin Deo		alto saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie	2:40
1951-03-01	We Love to Boogie		tenor saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie Sextet	2:55
1951-03-01	We Love to Boogie		alto saxophone and tenor saxophone	Dizzy Gillespie Sextet	2:52
1952-12 – 1953-01	Gotta Stop Loving You		alto saxophone	Christine Kittrell & Gay Crosse with The Good Humor Six	3:09
1954-07-02	Burgundy Walk		tenor saxophone	Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra	?:??
1954-07-02	Sweet as Bear Meat		tenor saxophone	Johnny Hodges	3:15
1954-08-05	Ballad Medley		tenor saxophone	Johnny Hodges	18:33
1954-08-05	Used to Be Duke		tenor saxophone	Johnny Hodges	7:22
1954-12-24	Swing Spring		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis, Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants	10:47
1954 – 1956	’round Midnight		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	5:27
1954 – 1956	Dr. Jackle		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	8:53
1954 – 1956	The Man I Love		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	8:01
1955-04-20	High Step		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	8:13
1955-04-20	Nixon, Dixon and Yates Blues		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	8:28
1955-04-20	Trane’s Strain		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	11:04
1955-08-05	Bitty Ditty		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	6:37
1955-08-05	Changes		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	7:11
1955-10-26	Two Bass Hit		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	3:43
1955-10-27	Budo		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	4:15
1955-10-27	Little Melonae		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:21
1955-11-16	Stablemates		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:21
1955-11-16	Stablemates		tenor saxophone	The Miles Davis Quintet	5:21
1955-11-18	It Never Entered My Mind (live, 195x: USA)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	2:54
1955-11-18	Max Is Making Wax (live, 195x: USA)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	3:06
1956-02-18	It Never Entered My Mind (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	5:15
1956-02-18	Max Is Making Wax (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	4:30
1956-02-18	Salt Peanuts (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	5:00
1956-02-18	Walkin’ (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	9:24
1956-02-18	Woody ’n’ You (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	5:41
1956-03-02	Dexterity		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	6:44
1956-03-02	Dexterity		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	6:46
1956-03-02	East Bound		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	4:25
1956-03-02	Stablemates		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	5:51
1956-03-02	Stablemates		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	5:54
1956-03-02	Trane’s Blues (a.k.a. John Paul Jones)		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	6:57
1956-03	Eastbound		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	4:25
1956-03	Easy to Love		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	3:52
1956-03	Trane’s Blues (a.k.a. John Paul Jones)		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	6:57
1956-03	Visitation		tenor saxophone	Paul Chambers	4:57
1956-04-20	High Step		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	8:10
1956-04-20	Nixon, Dixon and Yates Blues		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	8:30
1956-04-20	Trane's Strain		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane	11:02
1956-05-07	Avalon		tenor saxophone	Elmo Hope Sextet	9:38
1956-05-07	On It		tenor saxophone	Elmo Hope Sextet	9:02
1956-05-07	Polka Dots and Moonbeams		tenor saxophone	Elmo Hope Sextet	8:37
1956-05-07	Weeja		tenor saxophone	Elmo Hope Sextet	11:10
1956-05-11	Diane		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	7:48
1956-05-11	Four		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:16
1956-05-11	Half Nelson		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	4:48
1956-05-11	In Your Own Sweet Way		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:46
1956-05-11	It Could Happen to You		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	6:39
1956-05-11	It Never Entered My Mind		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:26
1956-05-11	Salt Peanuts		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	6:06
1956-05-11	Something I Dreamed Last Night		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	6:13
1956-05-11	The Surrey With the Fringe on Top		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	9:02
1956-05-11	The Theme (take 1)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	2:01
1956-05-11	The Theme (take 2)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	1:02
1956-05-11	Trane’s Blues		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	8:36
1956-05-11	When I Fall in Love		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	4:22
1956-05-11	Woody’n You		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:02
1956-05-24	Tenor Madness		guest and tenor saxophone	Sonny Rollins Quartet	12:16
1956-06-05	Bye Bye Blackbird (mono, studio session, 1956-6-5: Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, NY, US)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:56
1956-06-05	Bye Bye Blackbird		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:55
1956-06-05	Dear Old Stockholm (original studio master, mono)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:51
1956-06-05	Tadd’s Delight (original studio master, mono)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	4:29
1956-07-14	Ah-leu-cha		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:54
1956-07-14	Airegin / The Theme (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	6:57
1956-07-14	All of You (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	6:41
1956-07-14	All of You		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	6:36
1956-07-14	Intro		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	0:41
1956-07-14	Oleo (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	6:05
1956-07-14	The Theme (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	0:40
1956-07-14	Walkin'		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:27
1956-07-14	Walkin’ (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	7:35
1956-07-14	Woody ’n’ You (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:14
1956-07-21	Airegin		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	6:07
1956-07-21	All of You		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	11:03
1956-07-21	All of You (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	11:19
1956-07-21	Newk #2 / The Theme		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:01
1956-07-21	Sign Off / The Theme		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	1:16
1956-07-21	Two Bass Hit		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	5:17
1956-07-21	Two Bass Hit (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	5:26
1956-07-21	Well You Needn't		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet	7:39
1956-07-21	Well You Needn’t (live)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis	7:48
1956-09-07	Bob's Boys		tenor saxophone	The Prestige All Stars	11:03
1956-09-07	Bob’s Boys		tenor saxophone	Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims	8:21
1956-09-07	How Deep Is the Ocean		tenor saxophone	Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims	15:04
1956-09-07	Just You, Just Me		tenor saxophone	Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims	9:29
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	performed
	Bebop			Milt Jackson feat. John Coltrane	8:00
	Grand Central			Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane	4:32
	Ruby, My Dear (studio, 1957-07)			Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	6:21
	produced
	Compassion			John Coltrane	9:33
	Consequences			John Coltrane	7:20
	Cousin Mary			Archie Shepp	7:14
	Joy (studio, 1965-09-02)			John Coltrane	8:49
	Jupiter			John Coltrane	5:21
	Jupiter (variation)			John Coltrane	6:48
	Leo			John Coltrane	11:01
	Love			John Coltrane	8:03
	Mars			John Coltrane	10:41
	Mr. Syms			Archie Shepp	7:41
	Naima			Archie Shepp	7:10
	Number One			John Coltrane	11:58
	Peace on Earth			John Coltrane	7:12
	Rufus (Swung, His Face at Last to the Wind, Then His Neck Snapped)			Archie Shepp	6:25
	Saturn			John Coltrane	11:35
	Serenity			John Coltrane	5:12
	Syeeda’s Song Flute			Archie Shepp	8:30
	Venus			John Coltrane	8:17
	vocals
1964-12	A Love Supreme, Pt. I: Acknowledgement (original stereo studio master)			John Coltrane	7:47
1968-01-29	The Sun			Alice Coltrane	4:01
1968-06-06	Oceanic Beloved			Alice Coltrane	4:23
	composed
	Blue World			John Coltrane
	Meditations on Coltrane			Bergen Big Band
	instruments
1965-09-30	Live in Seattle		soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	'Round About Midnight		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis
	Blue Train		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Blue World		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album		soprano saxophone	John Coltrane
	Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album		soprano saxophone	John Coltrane
	Countdown: The Savoy Sessions		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane & Wilbur Harden
	Espiritual		soprano saxophone	John Coltrane
	Espiritual		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	First Meditations (for quartet)		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Infinity		bass clarinet and tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Infinity		bass clarinet and tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Informal Jazz (mono, original release)		tenor saxophone	Elmo Hope Sextet
	Live in Seattle		soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	Miles		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis Quintet
	Milestones (stereo)		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis
	Milestones		tenor saxophone	Miles Davis
	The European Tour		soprano saxophone	John Coltrane
	The European Tour		tenor saxophone	John Coltrane
	liner notes
	A Love Supreme			John Coltrane
	A Love Supreme (deluxe edition)			John Coltrane
	A Love Supreme			John Coltrane
	A Love Supreme			John Coltrane
	A Love Supreme			John Coltrane
	A Love Supreme (deluxe edition)	[Original] John Coltrane		John Coltrane
	performed
	The Making of A Love Supreme		guest	Various Artists
	produced
	Expression			John Coltrane
	Expression			John Coltrane
	Expression			John Coltrane
	First Meditations (for quartet)			John Coltrane
	Stellar Regions			John Coltrane
	dedications
	Dreaming of the Masters Suite			Art Ensemble of Chicago
	Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool			Various Artists
	This Is for You John			Benny Golson, Pharoah Sanders, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette
	Usfret			Trilok Gurtu
	tribute albums
	A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion Guitar			Various Artists
	A Tribute to John Coltrane - Blues for Coltrane			Various Artists
	MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon			Freddie Hubbard
	Tribute to John Coltrane: Live Under the Sky			Wayne Shorter, Eddie Gomez, Jack De Johnette, Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach
	arranged
	Afro Blue (John Coltrane arrangement)
	Greensleeves (John Coltrane arrangement)
	composed
1956	Trane's Blues
	26-2
	A Love Supreme
	A Love Supreme
	A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
	A Love Supreme, Part 2: Resolution
	A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance
	A Love Supreme, Part 4: Psalm
	Acknowledgement (lyrics Doug Carn)
	Africa
	After the Crescent
	After the Rain
	Alabama
	Amen
	Ascension (Edition I)
	Ascension (Edition II)
	Ascent
	Attaining
	Bass Blues
	Bessie's Blues
	Big Nick
	Blue Train
	Blue Valse
	Blues Minor
	Blues to Bechet
	Blues to Elvin
	Blues to You
	Brazilia
	By the Numbers
	Central Park West
	Chasin' Another Trane
	Chasin' the Trane
	Chronic Blues
	Coltrane Time
	Compassion
	Configuration
	Consequences
	Cosmos
	Countdown
	Cousin Mary
	Cousin Mary
	Crescent
	Dahomey Dance
	Dear Lord
	Dearly Beloved
	Dusk Dawn
	Equinox
	Equinox
	Evolution
	Exotica
	Expression
	Fifth House
	Giant Steps
	Goldsboro Express
	Grand Central
	Harmonique
	Impressions
	Impressions
	India
	Iris
	Jimmy's Mode
	Joy
	Jupiter
	Lazy Bird (Dewey Redman/Geri Allen arrangement)
	Lazy Bird
	Leo
	Liberia
	Like Sonny
	Living Space
	Locomotion
	Lonnie's Lament
	Love
	Mars
	Moment’s Notice
	Mr. Day
	Mr. Knight
	Mr. P.C.
	Mr. Syms
	Naima (song version with English lyrics by Jon Hendricks)
	Naima (vocalese version, lyrics by Mimi Perrin)
	Naima (Alex Harding arr.)
	Naima (Bob Mintzer arrangement)
	Naima (original instrumental version)
	Number One
	Offering
	Ogunde
	Olé
	One Down, One Up
	Peace on Earth
	Red Planet (Miles' Mode)
	Resolution (Kahil El’Zabar arrangement)
	Resolution
	Satellite
	Saturn
	Say It (Over and Over Again) (渋谷毅/Takeshi Shibuya arrangement)
	Selflessness
	Seraphic Light
	Serenity
	Slowtrane
	Some Other Blues
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	dedicated works
	Enlorfe
	In Memory of John Coltrane
	Liberator of the Spirit
	Memories of J.W. Coltrane
	Naima (Bob Mintzer arrangement)
	Nobody Hear the Music the Same Way
	Spirit of Trane	Trane
	Spirit of Trane (Bob Mintzer arrangement)
	Trane
	wrote
	A Dios
	Just for the Love
	Lonnie's Lament / Naima / Chasin' the Trane
	Nita
	Slow Blues
	Spirits
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