Not so fast. Like a number of other notable jazz musicians, young John Coltrane got his first real break thanks to bebop trumpet pioneer Dizzy Gillespie, whose band he joined in 1949. "We went to ...
"It's the first Coltrane I heard. A friend of mine and my ... "And Larks' Tongues in Aspic: My brother and I went to see that band every time they played in southern California.