Editing John Coltrane (section)

===Upbringing and early influences===
Coltrane was born and raised in a Christian home. He was influenced by religion and spirituality beginning in childhood. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend William Blair, was a minister at an [[African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church]]<ref name="Porter5-6">Porter, pp. 5–6.</ref><ref>Lavezzoli, p. 270.</ref> in [[High Point, North Carolina]], and his paternal grandfather, the Reverend William H. Coltrane, was an A.M.E. Zion minister in [[Hamlet, North Carolina]].<ref name="Porter5-6"/> Critic Norman Weinstein observed the parallel between Coltrane's music and his experience in the southern church,<ref name="Weinstein">{{cite book |last1=Weinstein |first1=Norman C. |title=A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in Jazz |date=1933 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=0-87910-167-9 |page=61 }}</ref> which included practicing music there as a youth.