While writing yesterday, I listened to a few hours of John Coltrane in the early '60s. Absorbing Coltrane through the ears is one experience. Watching him play in a video is quite another. Seeing ...

John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This video explores how Coltrane took the cheerful Sound of Music tune and turned it ...

It’s not easy to find live footage of the late, great Alice Coltrane, but this nine-minute harp solo is one of the few live videos I’ve found and it’s a truly mesmerizing one. A retrospective on Alice ...

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Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...

Today, exactly 50 years will have passed since the death of John Coltrane, one of the most groundbreaking and technically gifted jazz musicians ever. Over the course of his four decades on earth, ...

Coltrane changed the game in American music a few times over. Here’s a guided tour to his career, courtesy of 15 musicians, scholars, poets, writers and other experts. By Giovanni Russonello Yes, it’s ...

The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly revealed recordings show how he did it In August 1965, at the height of his fame, ...

Some rediscovered archival recordings by great musicians are more noteworthy for their news value than for their artistic significance. Others are treasures that extend a view of the artists’ ...

No score yet, be the first to add. 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 ...