John Coltrane

According to a website dedicated to John Coltrane, jazz journalist Nat Hentoff once said, “By the time “A Love Supreme” hit, Trane struck such a spiritual cord in so many listeners that people started to think of him as being beyond human. I think that’s unfair. He was just a human being like you and me–but he was willing to practice more, to do all the things that someone has to do to excel. The real value in what John Coltrane did was that what he accomplished, he did it as human.” Coltrane grew up listening to early jazz, which really influenced his musical style. Coltrane played the tenor saxophone. Some of his most famous songs include “A Love Supreme,” “Equinox,” and “My Favorite Things.”