John Coltrane in 1958 was unnerving. If you were a tenor saxophonist back then, Coltrane's playing in clubs and on albums must have been gripping and daunting. A year earlier, Coltrane was largely a sideman on recordings, notably with pianists Thelonious Monk, Red Garland, Sonny Clark and Tadd Dameron as well as with a batch of trumpeters. There were tw…
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