synffJohn Coltrane, the visionary American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, redefined the tenor saxophone with his relentless quest for sonic innovation, from hard bop's blistering "sheets of sound" to free jazz's ecstatic peaks.
Emerging in the post-bebop era, he honed his ferocious velocity alongside…
21 roots·82 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped John Coltrane; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Albert Ayler, Johnny Hartman + 17 more
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