Coltrane's musical talent was recognized, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musician's rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. By the time he got to Hawaii in late 1945, the Navy was downsizing. He was trained as an apprentice seaman at Sampson Naval Training Station in upstate New York before he was shipped to Pearl Harbor, where he was stationed at Manana Barracks, the largest posting of African American servicemen in the world. To avoid being drafted by the Army, Coltrane enlisted in the Navy on August 6, 1945, the day the first U.S.
In a DownBeat magazine article in 1960 he recalled: "the first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes". Īn important moment in the progression of Coltrane's musical development occurred on June 5, 1945, when he saw Charlie Parker perform for the first time. From early to mid-1945, he had his first professional work: a "cocktail lounge trio" with piano and guitar. He played clarinet and alto horn in a community band before beginning alto saxophone in high school. In September, his mother bought him his first saxophone, an alto.
Beginning in December 1938, his father, aunt, and grandparents died within a few months of one another other, leaving him to be raised by his mother and a close cousin. He grew up in High Point, North Carolina and attended William Penn High School.
Coltrane's first recordings were made when he was a sailor.Ĭoltrane was born in his parents' apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue in Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 23, 1926.
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