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Fund-Raiser Planned For Coltrane Church

San Francisco house of worship reveres late sax player as divine messenger.

A benefit jazz concert at San Francisco's swank Bimbo's 365 Club is planned for mid-March, to raise funds for the Church of Saint John Coltrane, which reveres the late jazz saxophonist as a divine messenger. The church, which has fed the homeless and held jazz-based African Orthodox services from a storefront perched between San Francisco's Lower Fillmore and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods for 30 years, has lost its lease due to a rent increase. Funds from the benefit will go to renovate a new site the church has found in San Francisco's Hunter's Point neighborhood. Artists who will play the March 15 benefit include E.W. Wainright and the African Roots of Jazz, the Broun Fellinis, John Santos, Ralph Carney, Herbie Lewis and the San Francisco Jazz Quartet, Bishop Norman Williams, Marcus Shelby Quartet and Ohnedaruth, the church's house band.

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