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Jazz Beat #25 - John Coltrane

New England Public Media | By Tom Reney
Published September 21, 2016 at 5:00 PM EDT
John Coltrane
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John Coltrane

John Coltrane, whose 90th birthday is Friday, September 23rd, had a short but episodic career. On the latest edition of Jazz Beat, New England Public Radio’s Tom Reney takes a look at an important transition in Coltrane’s life, when he made his final tour with Miles Davis and first began playing soprano saxophone, which was a gift from Miles to the tenor sax-playing icon.
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Tom Reney
Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian Martland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.


Email Tom at [email protected].
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