COLTRANE, JOHN WILLIAM. Jazz saxophonist ( in Hamlet, North Carolina; in New York). He was born into a musical family: his father played violin and sang, and his mother was a church pianist and also sang in a church choir. Both his grandfathers were ministers in the A.M.E. Zion Church; from earliest infancy he was exposed to black religious music in his maternal grandfather's church. His family moved to High Point, North Carolina,...