"I remember sitting with a doctor at the bar," says Lefton. "So at the end of the first set, he wants to go say hello to [bassist] Jimmy Garrison, and I follow him as he goes backstage." Garrison wasn ...

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 ...

Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane was only 40 years old when he died in 1967. But, like others whose lives were cut short in that turbulent decade, his influence has continued to grow in size and scope.

Ravi Coltrane has a tough task: honour his father John and fellow legend Miles Davis without imitating them, he tells AFP, ...

The meditation music that the late jazz composer Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda created during her later years is getting the much-deserved reissue treatment. On Thursday, the lauded label Luaka ...

I’ve been trying to avoid this all my life, but it had to happen one day [audience laughter]. Seriously, this music would have inspired me even had I been born into a different family in a different ...

Ravi Coltrane. What: A tribute to Alice Coltrane, part of the JVC Jazzfest NYC 2008. When: Tuesday, 8 p.m.. Where: The Concert Hall, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St., at Central ...

The groundbreaking musician Alice Coltrane gets her first comprehensive biography, thanks to author Andy Beta.

Coltrane recordings that show the influence of his studies with Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar and Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji. The audience’s tepid applause at the end of the piece ...

We asked writers, critics and musicians including Meshell Ndegeocello and Angel Bat Dawid to tell us what moves them in Coltrane’s spiritual jazz. By Marcus J. Moore For the past several years, New ...