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 ...

Each year, for the past many years, Rob Dixon and the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation present a tribute concert to one of jazz ...

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 ...

Award-winning saxophonist Michael Chapa leads an intimate John Coltrane tribute at Scout Hall in Cape Girardeau this Friday, Jan. 16, blending bebop, ballads and jazz standards.

American Bandstand and the Johnny Otis show, and loved Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Miller, Ray Charles, Link Ray, and so on. I had an older brother who brought all those 45 rpm ...

Next, let's take a moment to remember Alice Coltrane, who died on Friday. She may be best known as a piano player who married jazz legend John Coltrane. But she was also a musical innovator, an ...

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, ...

At times, tribute performances can feel stuffy — repeating the musical compositions from a particular artist without the flourishes, improvisations or specific tonal vernacular that makes each artist ...

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Ravi Coltrane was but 2 years old when his father, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, one of the greatest (and most controversial) figures in jazz history, passed away in 1967. Raised by his mother, the ...

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