John William Coltrane was born on , and brought up in High Point, North Carolina. He began playing clarinet with a community band while in his early teens and, after hearing Duke Ellington's suave alto player Johnny Hodges, enthusiastically expanded his talents to the alto sax. After graduation, Coltrane moved with his mother to Philadelphia, where he continued his music studies. He enrolled at Ornstein School of Music and the Granoff Studios, where his education included exposure...