City of Philadelphia - File #: 010516

• File #: 010516
• Version: 0
• Type: Privileged Resolution
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 6/14/2001
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/14/2001
• Title: Declaring September 23, 2001 "John W. Coltrane Day" in The City of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Cohen, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Tasco

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/14/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
6/14/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
6/14/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ

Title
Declaring September 23, 2001 "John W. Coltrane Day" in The City of Philadelphia.
Body
WHEREAS, Philadelphia's most noted jazz musician, arranger, composer and Grammy Award Winner, John William Coltrane, was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926. During his studies at Granoff Studios and the Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia, he realized that the music he was searching for not only existed in the past, present and future but also between the notes of conventional notations; and

WHEREAS, It is documented that John Coltrane was one of the major tenor sax players of his era and, today, remains as influential to many younger musicians. Coltrane arrived in Philadelphia in 1944 and received wide recognition as an integral member of the renowned Miles Davis Sextet. He formed his own group in 1960; and

WHEREAS, Coltrane was constantly searching, probing and looking for new dimensions and heights to climb and, with his horn, was able to speak the language of a people struggling to be free. He influenced the world through the messages within his music and demanded that audiences who left his sets re-examine both their ideas of music and themselves; and

WHEREAS, Coltrane wrote "My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is just part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being." John William Coltrane, having recycled his learning, from conversations and observations, into lesson plans taught through his horns, died on July 17, 1967; and

WHEREAS, The TraneStop Resource Institute, Inc. was named in the spirit of this Philadelphia legend. Its emergence in 1979 filled a void and gave the City of Philadelphia and the music community its first focused endeavor. The TraneStop provides resources and gu...