Andy Beta’s ‘Cosmic Music’ argues that the pianist, harpist and spiritual visionary was never merely adjacent to jazz ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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The two-disc “Offering” practically begins mid-sentence, with John Coltrane already into the opening number “Naima” before the engineer for Temple University’s WRTI radio station could hit the “record ...

In the years since Alice Coltrane passed from this world in 2007, a paradigm shift has occurred. For much of her lifetime, she and her music stood in the shadow of her husband, the late John Coltrane, ...

"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 ...