According to theologian Steven R. Guthrie, John Coltrane is one of a handful of musicians (including other greats like Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis) who defined jazz music. But ...
The John Coltrane Estate has announced ‘Coltrane 100’, a year-long centennial celebration including a concert, rare ...
Thirty-one years after John Coltrane died, just short of forty-one years old, he remains an enigma, not to only to me but to the various persons who have attempted to capture his character in books.
Alice Coltrane, 69, a jazz pianist-harpist-composer who was the widow of saxophonist John Coltrane and retired from the world of secular music to become a spiritual leader and guru in the Vedantic ...
The estate of legendary jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader John Coltrane will mark the 100th anniversary of the musician's birth with "Coltrane 100," a year-long global celebration including ...
Alice Coltrane, a keyboardist, harpist and composer who also managed the legacy of her late husband John Coltrane, died Friday of respiratory failure. She was 69. Coltrane, who died in West Hills, ...
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 ...
Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...
When the Detroit Jazz Festival opens on Aug. 30 with a concert titled “Translinear Light: The Music of Alice Coltrane,” Brandee Younger will play a newly restored Lyon & Healy harp with a ...
Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane will perform a centennial celebration of jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Ann Arbor this weekend.
High Point Museum will present a new exhibit, "A Love Supreme: The Jazz of John Coltrane through the Eyes of Chuck Stewart," from Sept. 3-Dec. 5 at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. in High Point. The exhibit, ...
We asked writers, critics and musicians including Meshell Ndegeocello and Angel Bat Dawid to tell us what moves them in Coltrane’s spiritual jazz. By Marcus J. Moore For the past several years, New ...