John Coltrane's house saved
From the Dix Hills (near Huntington, New York - 30 miles from Manhattan)
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bq. The Huntington Historic Preservation Board unanimously voted last night to recommend that the town board designate the former house of jazz legend John Coltrane in Dix Hills as a historic landmark.
bq. Local preservationists had pushed the town to save the house, which was threatened with demolition since it was sold in 2002 to a developer who planned to tear it down and put up a pair of new homes.
bq. The four-bedroom high ranch, which sits on three acres on Candlewood Path, was Coltrane’s home from 1964 until his death in 1967. It was in that house that Coltrane wrote one of his famous works, “A Love Supreme,” which went on to sell more than a million copies. The town board is to schedule a hearing to consider the matter.
This is very cool - I'm not that much into contemporary Jazz but a few artists I really like - the work that John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra did is pure unadulterated magic.
More on the house (photos too) and the drive to save it
here
Posted by DaveH at March 9, 2004 10:36 PM