Everything he was able to do, he did in the city of Philadelphia," said his son. A city-wide series of concerts and events in ...
The Root is celebrating 100 years of John Coltrane and the Long Island home where he composed “A Love Supreme,” and where his ...
The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly revealed recordings show how he did it ...
This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop sax with Reeves’ agile vocals, to time-stopping effect ...
From obsessive practise to jazz greatness, John Coltrane built an enduring legacy, cemented by A Love Supreme, one of jazz's best-selling albums.
Toward the end of John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations, the saxophonist stops playing. So do bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, mainstays of Coltrane’s fierce quartet, making what ...
Honing his own expressive power with extraordinary discipline, the saxophonist spent his career achieving new levels of musical transcendence.
John Coltrane was born on September 26, 1926, in North Carolina. This year is the Coltrane centennial. In a tragically short life-Coltrane was 40 when he died in 1967-he fundamentally changed the face ...
On what would have been John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, Impulse! Records is opening another door into the saxophonist’s endlessly expanding musical universe.
Saxophone legend John Coltrane's 1964 recording, A Love Supreme, is one of the masterworks in the canon of jazz: most musicians know it. Many have performed parts — if not all — of the 32-minute suite ...
John Coltrane, who would have turned 100 last week, is considered one of the giants of jazz for his brilliant improvisational skills and torrential sound. Lesser known, however, is his influence on ...
With this latest edition of the Originals box sets collecting saxophonist John Coltrane's albums for the Impulse! label, the series reaches the critically-polarised period immediately following the ...