Certainly, the credits for 'Ascension' (1965) list (John Coltrane), so it was undoubtedly a 'composition.' That 80-minute ...

Ars Nova Workshop will present a concert revisiting John Coltrane's landmark 1966 Temple University performance, featuring ...

To listen to John Coltrane is to accept uncertainty. His was a music of astute improvisation, sporadic gestures into some unknown territory. To enjoy Coltrane might require a retuning of one’s ears, ...

Despite being John Coltrane‘s most celebrated album, and one of the most beloved jazz albums of all time, A Love Supreme wasn’t a record that the saxophonist touched on much in the live setting. Up ...

One Saturday in October 1965, John Coltrane did something unusual: He picked up his tenor saxophone and led his band into a performance of his masterpiece, A Love Supreme, a work he rarely played live ...

Detroit, was once again in a position of seeing Coltrane break new ground before one of the most knowledgeable audiences in jazz—a status Detroit audiences still hold today. When the calendar turned ...

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 ...

Toward the end of John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations, the saxophonist stops playing. So do bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, mainstays of Coltrane’s fierce quartet, making what ...

Saxophonist David Murray Is the Featured Soloist on Original Arrangement of the Work by Miguel de la Cerna and El’Zabar Sunday, February 25, 2024, 4 pm, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica The ...

Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

Pairing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane may at first seem odd. After all, they were born 241 years apart on different continents. They worked in dissimilar music fields: Bach is a ...