A corner in the church of Saint John Coltrane. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. For almost sixty years, His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King has been leading what he calls “sound baptisms” at the ...
Sooner or later, a dinner function might come up out of nowhere and catch you sleeping on the iconic saxophonist's discography. So here's a... The Cocktail Party Guide To John Coltrane The Cocktail ...
In April of 1957 John Coltrane was in a dark place. Miles Davis had just kicked him out of the biggest jazz group in the country for his “junkie s—,” a struggle with heroin and alcohol abuse that ...
On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...
The Philadelphia rowhouse once owned by the jazz musician will be restored through funds provided by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By Mia ...
What a difference context makes. I have heard tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane many times at the original New York City jazz basement, the Village Vanguard, a room that’s deliberately dark, lit so that ...
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 ...