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.
John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ is set to be reissued as a cassette on March 27 as part of its 60th anniversary.
John Coltranerecorded the music for a staggering eight albums in just one year–1958. They were released over the course of the next eight years by Prestige Records, a New York label founded by Bob ...
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 ...
Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane's “humble offering to Him" has become one of the most revered albums in jazz and indeed all of American music. A deeply spiritual man who claimed to have ...
He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own. By Clay Risen Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted ...
Music the saxophonist recorded with his classic quartet for a Canadian film drama will see release next month as 'Blue World' Set in Montreal in 1964, the French New Wave–influenced Le chat dans le ...
While recognized as a great artist in his time, much of John Coltrane’s later work was so far ahead that it took the world years, if not decades, to catch up with it. Today, in a beautiful postscript ...
Sitting in the window of the Artfunk gallery on Jackson Street in San Francisco is a painting of jazz legend John Coltrane. While most people walking by will see the image of a great musician, ...