Ephrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.
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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 ...
Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...
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, ...
Nearly six decades ago, legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and his wife Alice, also an accomplished jazz musician, moved into an unassuming home on Candlewood Path in Dix Hills. In the basement and ...
Carl Gordon Grubbs, an award-winning jazz saxophonist known for his melodic style who taught generations of students, died of pneumonia Jan. 5 at Mercy Medical Center. The Lochearn resident was 79.
Even if you love jazz, chances are you might not know one of its pivotal masterpieces, “A Love Supreme,” was composed by legendary saxophonist John Coltrane in 1964 at his home along Candlewood Path, ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — There are a few ...
A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a pivotal moment in jazz’s evolution.
Sundays at the St. John Coltrane Church usually start with Rev. Mother Marina King gently humming into a microphone. Archbishop Franzo King, in an all black frock with a red and gold shawl, joins in ...