trane_fanatic

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Oops, did not see that previous post at all. Next time, I'll use that thing called a search button first. Feel free to delete.

"What I was told by Quincy Jones and Baby Face was, if I'd been around in the '50s and '60s, I would have been a jazz musician, by the way I rap -- I go up and down like a jazz musician. That's what they told me. Made me want to learn more about the music. It's a beautiful sound."

From SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle - 5/23/04) "I'm supposed to be playing a trumpet player that Fellini met when he came (to the United States) in 1957. It's a cold role, and actually it's going to set up my Miles Davis film. I am going to become Miles Davis. That's a role I could sink my teeth into. He was a great musician and he has an undertone people don't know about. I'd like to do for Miles Davis what Denzel did for Malcolm X. Americans love jazz music, they love Miles Davis, so why not let Snoop Dogg play him?" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file...PKG196O2EE1.DTL

I am a veteran of the Blue Note (RIP) and All About Jazz boards and this is my maiden post. Hopefully, a nice way to start. http://villagevoice.com/issues/0421/sotc.php Village Voice - May 25, 2004 Trane Fair Home John Coltrane's house on Long Island rescued for history Folks packing Huntington, Long Island's Town Hall one late April evening were there to sing praise to John Coltrane. One woman actually did sing a reworked version of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World." But most spoke softly to the five-member town council, supporting an effort to preserve the 2,500-square-foot brick ranch house on Candlewood Lane in Dix Hills, just south of the Long Island Expressway, that was Coltrane's final home. Coltrane lived there for three years, until his 1967 death. In 1964, in a dormered upstairs room, he composed A Love Supreme, a recording as famous for its spiritual heft as for its enduring appeal. A local developer had planned to remove the house, now condemned, and to subdivide the two-acre property for resale. Enter Dix Hills resident Steve Fulgoni, the recently elected head of his local historical society and an avid jazz fan. Fulgoni learned from a biography that Coltrane had lived in the town. Then he came across an Internet article making specific reference to the house. "I discovered that it was only weeks away from being torn down," he says. Fulgoni set up a website (dixhills.com), and put the word out. There was talk of the town purchasing the land and turning the home into a museum similar to the Louis Armstrong House in Queens. Letters of support flooded in, including one from Archbishop Franzo King, who runs the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in San Francisco. At Town Hall, advocates spoke of Coltrane as "jazz's van Gogh," and of the house as "a sacred space" with "priceless educational potential." One of Coltrane's sons, Ravi, an accomplished saxophonist himself, arrived with his own young son in tow. "I thought this house would always be there," he said from the podium, "and I believe that it needs to stand." But there were naysayers too—chiefly neighborhood association members concerned that a museum would disturb their "sleepy residential community." "It was the most colorful hearing we've ever had," says Councilwoman Susan Berland. Not to mention convincing. By unanimous vote, the council declared Coltrane's home a landmark, protecting it from demolition. A separate June hearing will determine whether the town will purchase the building. On Long Island's North Shore, a real estate deal alluring was trumped by a love supreme. - Larry Blumenfeld