the bar while playing one's
             instrument). Coltrane was ashamed of having to go through this "display"
             every night. "To any serious musician, it was an incredibly humiliating
             experience - to someone like Coltrane, who was developing a type of
             religious fervor for his music, it was devastating." In addition to the negative
             self-image this experience engendered, critics criticized his music as being too
             bizarre. Coltrane became very depressed, and searching for a way out, he
             turned to heroin. Heroin was a very popular drug among black musicians in
             the forties. It was a uniting force that, initially, brought them together, but in
             the end caused lives and careers to disintegrate. In 1949, Diz
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