Everyone is familiar with Coltrane's classic recording of "My Favorite Things. However, what many people may not know is that Coltrane was so taken with the musical that his first project for the ...

Jazz needs to find a better way to live with the ghost of John Coltrane, says music critic Ben Ratliff. When the North Carolina–born saxophonist died at 40 of liver cancer, in 1967, he left behind two ...

When we think of Alice Coltrane's music, a rush of images can come to mind -- the up-tempo arpeggios, the cascading and trance-like ragas, the sweeping use of octaves that builds her notes into layers ...

More than 40 years after his death, John Coltrane remains the most influential tenor saxophonist in jazz history. Whether it's his patented "sheets of sound," his rapid-fire improvisations or his bold ...

The jazz musician Ravi Coltrane, 47, didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his father, John Coltrane, indelibly stamped with his ...

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 ...

The DownBeat editor, Don DeMicheal, printed this exchange in the April 1962 issue, as part of a fascinating article headlined "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Regular readers ...

In the world of jazz, saxophone giant John Coltrane was so big, so powerful, so deep, so out there that almost half a century later jazz musicians are still wailing in his shadow. Coltrane, says New ...

Seeing the sold-out Friday night crowd at Blues Alley for Ravi Coltrane, one couldn’t help but wonder how many people were hoping to hear “My Favorite Things” or “A Love Supreme.” He must be used to ...