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John Coltrane
The ever growing love that I have for jazz was started because a friend told me to buy a John Coltrane CD the summer before my freshman year in college. For as long as I have known my friend he has always been interested in music and has played drums for the majority of his life. He had a few albums of Coltrane's and would always tell me I would love them. I remember the first time I heard that piercing voice that Coltrane gets out of his tenor saxophone. I took a trip out to Amoeba records with some friends and the first place I went was into the jazz room to find a John Coltrane album. Not knowing anything about him except that I liked his sound I bought the album The Art of John Coltrane. I got home and put it in my CD player and just sat in amazement as I listened to the album.
I absolutely fell in love with the first song on that album and that is why I chose it to be the first on the CD I made to accompany this paper. The song is titled "Moment's......

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