Johnny Hartman (3 July 1923, Chicago, - 15 September 1983, New York) was an American jazzsinger. He is best known for an album with saxophonist John Coltrane. Johnny Hartman sang in the mid-1940s in the Orchestra of pianist Earl Hines, for two years he was a member of the big band trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's. He sang on several plates of Gillespie's group, but also made recordings under his own name, for Regent and Savoy. In 1949 and 1951 he sang in the studio with the trio of Erroll Garner. In 1956 came his first feature on Bethlehem Records, record the songs were accompanied by the Quartet of Howard McGhee. The album was not a commercial success, but that was offset by his record with Coltrane, "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" from 1963. The singer still knew Coltrane from his time wit