John Coltrane News

Rakim's new album, The Seventh Seal , is also, conveniently, his seventh release.

It's been 18 years since he passed away, but Miles Davis is still the biggest jazz artist on the planet.

After two successful shows, the Live@theLibrary mus ic series wraps up with a jazz concert Saturday night.

David Demsey will discuss his research on the music of John Coltrane on Thursday, Nov.

Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler performed his greatest music in a state of spiritual ecstasy.

In the spring of 1961, when I was a freshman at Columbia, the theater group invited our illustrious alumnus Richard Rodgers to speak.

You'd need multi-dimensional capabilities - or at least stout shoes and a good map -to fully take in the artistry and music on offer at this year's London Jazz Festival.

Recent Listening: Dick Katz Dick Katz , The Line Forms Here . The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording.

Saint Joan , which George Bernard Shaw wrote 400 years after Joan of Arc lived, opened Thursday night at the UNC School of the Arts.

In fall 2009, the Prestige label is celebrating its 60th Anniversary with a series of compilations and remasters.

Lavender Jazz, Goshen College's big band, will present a mixture of jazz standards, world music and Dixieland jazz in their fall concert, "Within Reach," on Friday, Nov.

Its 40th anniversary year, 2009, has been a good one for Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music Company.

Northeastern University presents a discussion entitled The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound , on Friday, November 13.

It could easily be argued that the "loft jazz" era of the '70s was a direct product of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians , both in its moral structure and its eventual fragmentation.

Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85.

Nio: 'very much a Californian' Carlos Nio had a change of heart around the age of 28, one that is at once thought-provoking and controversial.

Sarajevo Jazz Festival Opens Sarajevo Sarajevo The 13th annual Sarajevo Jazz Festival opened here on Tuesday with a performance by the US singer Kurt Elling, one of the world's most distinctive male vocalists in jazz today.

Wilmette saxophonist Jeff Mackevich will hit the stage with his new funk/jazz band, the J Beam Band, at Gabe's Backstage Lounge in Highwood at 9 p.m. Nov.

There sometimes seems to be an unofficial competition among critics to see who can be rudest about Mr C. His new studio set - which takes its title from a Nancy Mitford novel - won't silence the cynics .

Whirlwind Recordings Ltd. Since moving to Britain from the US in 2005, bassist Michael Janisch has put much of his energy into collaborative projects involving musicians from the two countries.