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Benefit Sunday for Coltrane House
Group raising $85,000 to preserve jazz legend's Dix Hills home.
A Dix Hills organization is planning a benefit Sunday to raise money to preserve the home of legendary jazz musician John Coltrane.
The Friends of the Coltrane Home are also running an online campaign to raise $85,000 to preserve the house at 247 Candlewood Path in Dix Hills, which was saved from demolition after Coltrane fan Steve Fulgoni contacted Town of Huntington officials. The town purchased the property on behalf of the Friends of the Coltrane Home group and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Coltrane's greatest work, A Love Supreme, was written in the Dix Hills house.
Sunday's benefit is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at En Brasserie, 435 Hudson St., New York, with such guest speakers as Dr. Cornel West and Ashley Kahn. Music will be provided by the Ravi Coltrane Quartet.
Carlos Santana is honorary board chairman of the organization.
John Coltrane died in Huntington in 1967. He was 40.
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