This online lecture from OLLI and BCC will be a sprint through the highlights of the musical life of saxophonist/composer/bandleader John Coltrane, the cultural context in which it was created and received, and its varied artistic, philosophical, political and spiritual legacies. His too-short but intense public career featured many abrupt changes and distinct phases, and he is widely considered to be the most influential jazz musician from the 1960’s onward. His quartet (featuring Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison) instigated a seismic shift in the expectations of what a jazz performance entailed and represented, and he helped to usher in the concept of “world” music. He was also an important figure in the Civil Rights and Black Arts movements of the 1960s. You’re sure to hear something new or to see something old in a fresh light during this lecture!