Report Abuse. John Coltrane died of liver cancer on June 17, 1967. His heavy heroin and alcohol use in the 1940s and 1950s probably were the root causes. Heavy drinking in particular can cause liver damage.
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Hepatitis C often leads to liver disease and/or liver cancer. I have a good friend who is waiting on a liver transplant who is on the verge of death and he last used drugs in December 1990. It is very clear to me that Coltrane had undiagnosed hepatitis C which turned into liver cancer. Sad to say that I have seen this and am seeing it up close and personal, and like with my dear friend, the sickness often comes to full bloom many years after the drug use/infection. yeah that was my understanding too.
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Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital on Long Island on July 17, 1967, at the age of 40. His funeral was held four days later at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City. The service was opened by the Albert Ayler Quartet and closed by the Ornette Coleman Quartet.
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Coltrane was born in his parents' apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue, Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926. His father was John R. Coltrane and his mother was Alice Blair. He grew up in High Point, North Carolina, attending William Penn High School (now Penn-Griffin School for the Arts).
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John William Coltrane (nicknamed Trane) was a musician and a composer. He played the tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and the flute. He is … mostly famous for is talented improvisation in free jazz. John William Coltrane passed away at Huntington Hospital on Long Island due to liver disease on July 17, 1967. He was 40 years old.
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For the life of me I can never recall ever having heard a correlation between hard drug use and cancer, yet in most accounts of Coltrane's illness this link is made. There's a way in which dubious myths get passed on from one person to the next in jazz writing and this seems to be one of the more persistent of them.
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In a 1968 interview Albert Ayler revealed that Coltrane was consulting a Hindu meditative healer for his illness instead of western medicine, though conventional treatment may have been ineffective regardless. Source(s): Wikipedia John Coltrane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltra... John Coltrane website http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/... Who2 John Coltrane http://www.who2.com/johncoltrane.html. cremedelacreme04 · 10 years ago.
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John William Coltrane, also known as  Trane  (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Posted. One thing that has always bugged and confused me is the doggedly common suggestion that Coltrane's terminal cancer was directly related to his drug and alcohol problems, problems that he kicked ten full years before his death.
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what kind of cancer did john coltrane have
John Coltrane had liver cancer.