John Coltrane’s Birthday Celebrated With New Collection

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A new boxed set of John Coltrane’s Prestige recordings will be released on Sept. 23 to commemorate what would have been the saxophonist’s 80th birthday.

The 6-disc set, Fearless Leader (Concord), collects all of the tracks that Coltrane cut as a leader for Prestige in the 1950s.



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