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Celebrating 100 years of jazz great John Coltrane

NPR | By Terry Gross

Published September 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM EDT

Coltrane would have turned 100 on Sept. 23. We speak to his son Ravi, also a tenor saxophonist, and we revisit a 1998 interview with Elvin Jones, a drummer who performed and recorded with Coltrane.

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