Today is John Coltrane's birthday

[ghost of miles]

Happy birthday, JC, and hope you're blowing in the cosmos somewhere. Much thanks for your love supreme.

[catesta]

Thanks Trane, and happy birthday.

[Shrdlu]

He was born the same year as my Mom and has the same birthday as me! My Mom, praise God, is still fit as a fiddle. Oh, if only Trane had not been taken in by that heroin! He would still only be 77 if he were still alive.

I remember the tiny article in our local newspaper saying that he had died. Of course, I had no way of knowing that he was not well. Miles said the same thing. It's staggering that it's now 36 years since he died.

[AfricaBrass]

Happy Birthday Shrdlu!

Happy Birthday John. I wish you were still here.

[Leeway]

In honor and celebration of Coltrane's birthday, I am playing "Blue Train," "Chasin the Trane," and "A Love Supreme."

I was driving to work this morning, and the local public radio station was playing some Coltrane. Sometimes it hits you-- just how great he was. To hear "My Favorite Things" during a rainy, sloggy commute, just reminds you how beautiful things CAN be-- and ARE, when you look past the surface. That's Coltrane.

[.:.impossible]

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