09/26   John Coltrane born in North Carolina 

11/49 STRICTLY BEBOP, Coltrane's first recording session with Dizzy       Gillespie's Big Band 

10/55 THE NEW MILES DAVIS QUINTET, Coltrane's first recording        session with Miles Davis Quintet 

05/56 TENOR MADNESS session with Sonny Rollins 

04/57 Coltrane's first recording sessions with Thelonious Monk 

05/57  Coltrane's first date as a leader, COLTRANE, for Prestige

09/57 Coltrane records BLUE TRAIN 

03/59 Coltrane records KIND OF BLUE, with Miles Davis 

05/59 Coltrane records GIANT STEPS 

10/60 Coltrane records MY FAVORITE THINGS

05/61 First Impulse! recording, AFRICA BRASS 

12/64 Coltrane records A LOVE SUPREME

3/67 Coltrane records EXPRESSION, his last studio recording 

7/67 Coltrane dies in New York