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The GREAT drummer for John Coltrane's quartet died this past May 19th.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/19/obit.jones.ap/

He was brilliant. I always heard the great story about John Coltrane going behind the drums to blare in Elvin's ear when he started to nod off from the, um..."horse" that he rode earlier in the evening.
Elvin, McCoy Tyner, & bassist Jimmy Garrison were incredible...

"It felt like a perfect blend, a joy. It was always a joy to play, in a recording studio or a nightclub. It was the same feeling, in front of a large audience or no one at all. Music was our sole purpose."
-- Elvin Jones on the Classic Quartet

I mean c'mon, I even named my dog Coltrane!

I have a Monk album from 1958 called "Monks Music" where Coltrane nodded off in the middle of a session and Monk looked over at him when it was his turn, saw him off in dreamland and alarmed yelled: "Coltrane!" He came out of it and played a brilliant solo, haha! I had always noticed this but didn't realize it why he yelled until I read Coltranes biography, he straightened out a few years later and became a very spiritual man.