Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane

Name: Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9780805079944

by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Sean Qualls

Description of Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane

Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John’s own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.