John Coltrane News

Lines Ballet Artistic Director Alonzo King has collaborated with musicians from Morocco, Japan and the Central African rain forests.

Guaranteed to liven up the dullest of sofas are these Pop Culture pillows from Modern Artisans .

For almost a decade, the protean recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has been remastering his analog Blue Note masters into 24-bit digital format, affording fans an enhanced audio experience and/or a chance to ...

Area jazz lovers are in for a special treat Sunday as the Big Band Bash tour featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis perform at the Patriot Theater in Trenton.

Jimmy Cobb is early. The sole surviving performer on Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue is waiting in a sixth-floor conference room just blocks from Columbia's old 30th Street Studios, the converted Orthodox ...

Almost every Internet reference to saxophonist Hadley Caliman compares him to '60s innovator John Coltrane, but it's easy to hear that his roots go back quite a bit further.

Often cited as saxophonist John Coltrane's first album as leader, Dakar -recorded on April 20, 1957-is a usurper.

Friday, October 3, 2008 at 11:00 PM A titan of the jazz piano, Grammy-winner McCoy Tyner headed a quartet of luminaries in this performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Edwards at Ani's 'Ward' Kathleen Edwards was born in Ontario, grew up in Korea and Switzerland, studied classical violin and generally fell beneath music's sway from a tender age.

Though he was John Coltrane's foil in the Coltrane Quartet in the early '60s, recording such classics as A Love Supreme , Tyner hardly stopped there.

Oct. 2, 2008 - Friday, October 10, Future Studios presents Paddy Keenan, founding member of Ireland's famous Bothy Band, performing with Celtic guitarist John Walsh.

As record albums go, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" may not by the biggest seller of all time, but it has influenced generations of jazz and other musicians and is about to celebrate its 50th birthday.

In The Oregonian's news podcast, Today in Oregon, for Friday, Sept. 26, 2008: Mexican prosecutors have filed charges against five police officers who are suspected of beating an Oregon man to death last month ...

Anat Cohen continues to overwhelm. "Notes from the Village" is another display of why such a statement of praise is befitting this saxophonist-clarinetist. She is the composer of four of the eight songs, plays ...

Despite a relatively brief career , saxophonist John Coltrane was among the most important, and most controversial, figures in jazz.

Half Note Records Pianist McCoy Tyner's dramatic arpeggios, thunderous bass pulses and modulated chord voicings have inspired generations of aspiring jazz musicians.

They burned bright . . . and faded fast. Of the phenomenal MCs who lit up hip-hop in its late 1980s and early 1990s golden age, turning it from a regional novelty to the most influential arts movement of our ...

Get ready for the gospel according to Seven Days of Opening Nights. The annual Seven Days arts festival, which marks its 11th season in February, will kick off with what promises to be a ferocious, ...

Categories: Legends , Music News , R.I.P. It would be wrong to close out September 23 without a bow to a jazz legend, perhaps the jazz legend of all time.

Today marks the 82nd birthday of jazz musician Ohnedaruth John William Coltrane.