COLTRANE'S SON MAKES HIS OWN MARK ON MUSIC BY BEN RATLIFF NEW YORK TIMES.(PREVIEW)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | March 11, 1999 | Copyright

It's a perfect indicator of jazz's restricted place in American society that Ravi Coltrane -- who is the son of John Coltrane -- was nobody special as a boy growing up in Woodland Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles, far away from the bohemian world. He was nearly 2 when his father died of liver cancer in 1967, and the family moved from Long Island to the San Fernando Valley, where he lived with his mother, Alice Coltrane, and three siblings. Of course, he was suddenly somebody very significant when he arrived at the California Institute of the Arts to study tenor and soprano ...

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