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During the great flowering of jazz in the 1950s, what was Coltrane's contribution to modern jazz?

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... played horn for both Davis and Monk; the latter showed him tricks of phrasing and harmony that deepened his control of his instrument. Coltrane can be heard playing tenor sax on Davis's famous Columbia album Kind of Blue ...

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