...you pick up the saxophone again, I suppose it's like writing poetry, you are picking up the history of that. Playing saxophone is like honoring a succession of myths. I never thought of this before but: the myth of saxophone and here comes Billie Holiday and there's Coltrane. I love his work dearly, especially A Love Supreme. That song has fed me. And all of that becomes. When you play you're a part of that, you have to recognize those people.
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John Coltrane was a 20th-century American jazz saxophonist. John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Read more on Wikipedia →