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Coltrane's Hometown

Today would have been jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's 70th birthday. This past weekend, the town where he grew up...High Point, North Carolina (known as "the furniture capital of the world")...dedicated a marker to him. Paul Brown, of member station WFDD, talked to some of the townspeople who remember Coltrane...and some who don't.

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