Young John Coltrane was all ears.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children\'s Book of.
Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of Jazz legend John Coltrane.
These vivid noises shaped John\'s own sound as a musician.
And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household.
Young John Coltrane was all ears