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Listen to all of our great Arts Desk features on jazz artists making music in the present and the past. Enjoy!

The Genius of Coltrane: Player and Composer

Born in North Carolina in 1926, saxophone player and composer John Coltrane spent over a decade in Philadelphia and then moved to New York. WRTI's Susan Lewis considers the impact of Coltrane, who expanded the boundaries of jazz with a wide range of styles.

http://youtu.be/P3teY5qtIUQ

Coltrane’s house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999. Efforts to preserve the house are ongoing.

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Listen to WRTI's Susan Lewis talk with Tom Moon and Rob Armstrong, who co-directed the film COLTRANE'S PHILADELPHIA.

http://youtu.be/f5b91E7_ZdY

Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.