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SAINT JOHN COLTRANE AOC
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People Magazine-October 12, 1998
Page 178 |
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Music is ``greater than just a cultural experience or an art form," says Bishop Franzo Wayne King (leading his San Francisco flock). |
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High On Coltrane
Jazz great John Coltane's memory lives on
at a church that finds God in his music. Franzo Wayne King was a 22 year old haridresser back in 1965 when he found himself in a San Francisco music club listening to the venerated jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. ``It was a baptism in sound," says King, who reports that the experience inspired a ``very serious and earnest journey to seek out God."
The quest led King to found the Saint John cotlrane African Orthodox Church. Now every Sunday morning some 70 congregants pack into a modest San Francisco storefront to hear Bishop King conduct a three hour service that is part worship, part jam session. ``Music is a big reservoir that we all dip out of," says King, quoting Coltrane. ``And," he adds, ``so is spirituality." |
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