The Coltrane legacy in jazz is vast and monumentally influential—that is a known quantity in the music world. So much of that legacy is filled with the artistic resonance of John Coltrane, whose ...
Today, exactly 50 years will have passed since the death of John Coltrane, one of the most groundbreaking and technically gifted jazz musicians ever. Over the course of his four decades on earth, ...
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, spiritual leader and the wife of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937-2007) long stood in her husband's shadow. Some certain number of more casual ...
Though John Coltrane died 50 years ago this week, the jazz legend’s legacy is as potent as ever. And organizers of Coltrane Day 2017 on Saturday at Heckscher Park in Huntington are focusing their ...
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda will be celebrated in New Orleans on January 14 and 16 with a two-part performance and ...
Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane was only 40 years old when he died in 1967. But, like others whose lives were cut short in that turbulent decade, his influence has continued to grow in size and scope.
The meditation music that the late jazz composer Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda created during her later years is getting the much-deserved reissue treatment. On Thursday, the lauded label Luaka ...
Few jazz musicians inspire more respect or demand more attention than John Coltrane. Elvin Jones, Coltrane's drummer in "The Classic Quartet" (1961-65), said that most people who listen seriously to ...
My first heavy music experience was with John Coltrane. I was sixteen. Before that I enjoyed plenty of strong musical medicine, mostly rhythm and blues, watched the American Bandstand and the Johnny ...
Eight months before John Coltrane died, he performed a concert at Temple University. During the concert, the legendary jazz musician put down his horn and banged his fists against his chest. He ...
Alice Coltrane released A Monastic Trio, her first album as a bandleader, in 1968, one year after the death of her husband and collaborator John Coltrane. Over the next decade, working as a composer, ...
American Bandstand and the Johnny Otis show, and loved Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Miller, Ray Charles, Link Ray, and so on. I had an older brother who brought all those 45 rpm ...