Music Player: John Coltrane

John Paul Jones was born July 8, 1747, in Scotland, Kirkbean.His mother’s name was Jean McDuff and his father’s name was John Paul, Sr. He was born the 5th child out of 7children. In 1759 at the age 13, he started his career at sea as ship boy. In 1764 he was hired as 3rd mate on king George’s ship. In 1765 his father died.

He began playing music when he was eight. His career started when he played trumpet, leading a dance band in downtown Chicago when he was barely in his teens. At hull house, he

John Colter was born. This interesting man was born in Virginia. He was born in 1774. In 1780 near president day John Colter moved. Later, he moved to Kentucky. In 1803 Colter was introduced to a very special group. Next, he was introduced to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He was the best hunter. Colter practised and never left footprints or his scent while trapping.

According to “Waylon Jennings” published by Biography.com, which states Jennings was born on June, 15th 1937. Waylon Jennings grew up in a small town Texas, where he quickly grew an interest in outlaws, and playing guitar. Jennings started playing guitar at a young age, and by the age of 12 was exploring his interest in music in many different ways, such as starting a new band and becoming a radio disk jockey. Jennings liked music enough to drop out of school to explore the

John Duke was one of America’s foremost composers of art song. He was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in the late 1800’s. Due to his musically and literarily inclined parents, Duke had learned to read music from his mother who was a singer. He did great things with music, beginning piano lessons at the age of 11, and entering the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of sixteen, where he studied piano with a pupil of some very famous composers.

Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His grandmother had raised him mostly because his father abandoned the family soon after he was born, and his mother had turned to prostitution. Armstrong left school in the fifth grade and began working. The Karnofsky’s gave young Armstrong a job collecting junk and delivering coal. They encouraged him to sing and often times would invite him into their home for meals.

He was born on October 30, 1935. He was born in Braintree, that is now Quincy, Massachusetts. At age 16 John had received a scholarship to the school where he got his education called, Harvard University. This is where he received his undergraduate degree and his masters. At age 20, John studied law in the office of John Putnam’s, a prominent lawyer. Despite of his father’s wish for John to enter into the ministry.

John Jay was born December 12,1745. He spent his childhood near Rye, New York. Later on in his life, Jay became a successful lawyer. Bye the time that rifts with the Great Britain and calls for independence erupted in the colonies. John Jay was a very devoted person and always kept his eye on the prize.

According to biography.com, Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born into a poor section of New Orleans, which was nicknamed “The Battlefield.” Louis Armstrong had a tough childhood when he was growing up, his father was a factory worker that had left Louis Armstrong’s family after he was soon to be born. Louis Armstrong’s mom was a prostitute and she often left him at his maternal grandmother’s house. Armstrong had to quit school in the fifth grade because he needed to begin work to support himself. A

Scott Joplin was Born in the late 1860s some place along the outskirt amongst Texas and Arkansas, Scott Joplin got the piano as a youngster and in the long run turned into a traveling performer as a teenager. He submerged himself in the developing melodic frame known as ragtime. Joplin received a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize, honoring the man who shaped a genre that influenced decades of

John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926, in Hamlet, North Carolina. This particular day had important astrological significance. It was the day of the autumn equinox, one of only two days through the year where night and day are perfectly equal (Fraim 7).

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1899, to parents James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. Duke, even as a teenager, had a great talent for music. His school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the

Within a year, his father, his uncle, and his minister all died. He lost every important male influence in his life. After graduating from high school in High Point, he moved to Philadelphia in 1943, where he lived in a small one-room apartment and worked as a laborer in a sugar-refinery. For a year, Coltrane attended Ornstein School of Music. Then in 1945, he was drafted into the Navy and sent to Hawaii where he was assigned to play clarinet in a band called the Melody Makers. Upon his return from Hawaii a year later, Coltrane launched his music career. "With all those years of constant practice in High Point behind him, possessing a powerful inner strength from being raised in a deeply religious family, and with a foundation in musical theory and an innate curiosity about life, Coltrane was well prepared to seriously enter a battle." In the late nineteen forties, Coltrane began playing with several different R&B groups in small bars and clubs around Philadelphia. It became a tradition in many of the clubs at this time for musicians to "walk the bar" (i.e. to walk on top of the bar while playing one's instrument). Coltrane was ashamed of having to go through this "display" every night. "To any serious musician, it was an incredibly humiliating experience - to someone like Coltrane, who was developing a type of religious fervor for his music, it was

John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut (McPhail). When Brown turned five years old, his family moved to Ohio. His parents Owen Brown and Ruth

Frederic Chopin was born on March 1, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Due to a registered