An examination of Coltrane’s original compositions reveal over thirty that either use the term “blues” in the title or are harmonically and melodically based on the blues form with some variations.

This sound of freedom, which expressed resistance, hope, faith, determination, resilience, courage, and pride, was carried in the syntax and tones of black voices, male and female, individual and collective. The spirituals became a primary genre of black musical expression and the black community, like the one Coltrane grew up in,

Black American culture believes it is important to exercise this part of your being—the part of your being that is tampered with when you run this sound through your body is a part of you that our culture believes should be developed and cultured; that you should be familiar with and that you should be able to get to as often as possible. And that