The San Francisco Church Where John Coltrane is a Saint
Bay Curious
KQED
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:36.6 | John Coltrane on the saxophone is like nothing else. |
| 0:44.3 | He grew up in North Carolina in the 1930s, where the church was a big part of his life. |
| 0:50.3 | Both of his grandfathers were ministers, but his calling was different. After high school, he moved to Philadelphia with his mother, |
| 0:58.0 | where his music career started to take off. |
| 1:03.0 | By the mid-1950s, Coltrane was gaining recognition among other jazz musicians |
| 1:09.0 | for the way he played, skipping scales in a style that |
| 1:12.1 | became known as sheets of sound. |
| 1:18.5 | Here's Coltrane in a 1960 radio interview. |
| 1:21.6 | There are some set things that I know, some devices that I know, harmonic devices that I know, |
| 1:27.2 | that will take me out of the |
| 1:28.9 | ordinary path, you see, if I use these. But I haven't played them enough, and I'm not familiar |
| 1:35.0 | with them enough yet, to take the one single line through them. So I play all of them, you know, |
| 1:40.3 | trying to acclimate my ear so I can hear. |
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