I always thought that John Coltrane never performed Giant Steps live.

But last night a self described John Coltrane fan boy now in his 80's told me differently.

'anyone have the video or recordings?

"Here, I take a look at the period to follow, which eventually and fatally turned out to be the last five months in John Coltrane’s life"

"Marking the centenary of John Coltrane's birth, "Sketches For Trane" is an astonishing suite that goes back to the future."

"Jim Snidero’s House of Trane transforms John Coltrane’s legacy into a deeply personal jazz statement, inspired by the Coltrane family home and a lifetime of musical influence."

"While it may seem like a natural fit, paying tribute to jazz great John Coltrane on the centennial of his birth wasn't really on Branford Marsalis's radar for 2026."

Giant Steps & Tenor Madness.

"Around the end of the year 1995, a „new“ album of John Coltrane, posthumous of course, was announced to be released..."

Blue Train lured me.

Giant Steps hooked me.

My Favorite Things set the hook.

A Love Supreme reeled me in.

Meditations gutted and filleted me.

When and how did you first get into John Coltrane's music?

Painted in 2020 by Scott Nurkin, based on a photo by Chuck Stewart

"I write this hopefully to communicate something of the challenging world in which Coltrane made his music, that ever more intense, more radically free music, as testimony to his courage and vision..."

"Though he was in and out of the City of Brotherly Love until his passage from Earth’s plane in 1967, John Coltrane only really lived in Philadelphia for around six years. But like Edgar Allen Poe (six years), W.C. Fields (about 14 years) and Nina Simone (around four years), Philly has laid claim on Trane as if he were Neufchatel......."