Everyone is familiar with Coltrane's classic recording of "My Favorite Things. However, what many people may not know is that Coltrane was so taken with the musical that his first project for the ...

Jazz needs to find a better way to live with the ghost of John Coltrane, says music critic Ben Ratliff. When the North Carolina–born saxophonist died at 40 of liver cancer, in 1967, he left behind two ...

In the world of jazz, saxophone giant John Coltrane was so big, so powerful, so deep, so out there that almost half a century later jazz musicians are still wailing in his shadow. Coltrane, says New ...

The jazz musician Ravi Coltrane, 47, didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his father, John Coltrane, indelibly stamped with his ...

If you like jazz, we're assuming you have one. We want to know what it is. Hit us up in the comments. I was sold by the time I got to Live At Birdland. But this was the record which let me fully see ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. At a press conference in Tokyo in 1966, almost exactly a year before he ...

Seeing the sold-out Friday night crowd at Blues Alley for Ravi Coltrane, one couldn’t help but wonder how many people were hoping to hear “My Favorite Things” or “A Love Supreme.” He must be used to ...

Tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane will be playing at Jazz at the Bistro January 18–21. He played in St. Louis several years ago. Then, and on his own recordings, he is a very impressive player with a ...

Azar Lawrence has never shied away from his discipleship to John Coltrane. (Every tenor saxophonist of the past 50 years has come under Trane’s influence, but Lawrence is from the first generation of ...

When we think of Alice Coltrane's music, a rush of images can come to mind -- the up-tempo arpeggios, the cascading and trance-like ragas, the sweeping use of octaves that builds her notes into layers ...

New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new John Coltrane study is really two books in one. The first is a concise, convincing assessment of the evolution of Coltrane's music from his early days as a ...