Modal Jazz Musician John Coltrane's influence on Jazz.

On John Coltrane John Coltrane was born on 23 September 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. It is highly unlikely that on this day the world realized what greatness had entered their presence. In 1943, Coltrane - or "Trane" as he was affectionately called - moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where his love of music reached new heights. In 1945 he was enlisted into the Navy (his term ended sometime in 1926) where he headed a popular Navy band. In 1949 he was …

…style was influenced by the rhythms of both African and Asian music. These influences could be heard in many of his songs, and among his modal-jazz classics. Coltrane died of liver failure at the age of forty on 17 June, 1967. At the time of his death he was still misunderstood and under-appreciated. Now, a little under thirty years after his death, we are barely beginning to unlock, understand, and appreciate the music of Jazz-legend John Coltrane.