He incorporated Eastern ideas, free-jazz tendencies and boundless energy in such pieces as My Favori
He incorporated Eastern ideas, free-jazz tendencies and boundless energy in such pieces as My Favorite Things, Sun Ship and Meditations.  His first jazz recordings were with Dizzy Gillespie's band; he joined the original Miles Davis Quintet in 1955, but was booted because of heroin addiction two years later.  He then quit heroin, had a religious awakening and rejoined Miles Davis in early 1958.  He would leave, however, to form his own quartet.  For 10 points-name this tenor saxophonist whose masterwork was 1964's A Love Supreme.
He incorporated Eastern ideas, free-jazz tendencies and boundless energy in such pieces as My Favorite Things, Sun Ship and Meditations.  
John Coltrane