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John Coltrane

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John Coltrane

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Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Saxophonist, band leader, and composer (1926–1967) whose brilliant improvisatory skills and experimental spirit made him one of the most influential and highly regarded musicians in the history of jazz. After playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk, he led his own groups and made such classic recordings as ‘Giant Steps,’ ‘My Favorite Things,’ and ‘A Love Supreme.’ He died of liver cancer at the age of 41. Unsigned music manuscript, in pencil, on a preprinted sheet of staff paper, one page, 9.5 x 12, featuring 36 bars of Prokofiev’s ‘Egyptian Nights-Incidental Music from the Play Op. 61,’ apparently a single instrumental part (quite possibly for saxophone). On the reverse, Coltrane sketches a man and a woman standing together, a small revolver, and writes “By Elmer,” possibly a reference to Elmer Snowden, a band leader at the time. The page bears the Coltrane estate’s “2005 Jowcol Music” copyright ink stamp. In very good condition, with light toning and soiling, a few small edge tears, none affecting notations, and some creasing to top corners. A fine and rather lengthy example of Coltrane’s study in music theory.