John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ is set to be reissued as a cassette on March 27 as part of its 60th anniversary.

John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This ...

Eight months before John Coltrane died, he performed a concert at Temple University. During the concert, the legendary jazz musician put down his horn and banged his fists against his chest. He ...

My first heavy music experience was with John Coltrane. I was sixteen. Before that I enjoyed plenty of strong musical medicine, mostly rhythm and blues, watched the American Bandstand and the Johnny ...

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.

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 John Coltrane career, from the very start and right on up to 1965, had been propelled by his more or less clear image of what he was after. After listening often to his recordings, I first heard ...

Alice Coltrane released A Monastic Trio, her first album as a bandleader, in 1968, one year after the death of her husband and collaborator John Coltrane. Over the next decade, working as a composer, ...

2006-11-03 04:00:00 PDT Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County)-- Perhaps the first thing she'll make clear, in any conversation about the music, is her identity: Alice Coltrane would rather not be known ...

"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 ...

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, spiritual leader and the wife of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (1937-2007) long stood in her husband's shadow. Some certain number of more casual ...

The meditation music that the late jazz composer Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda created during her later years is getting the much-deserved reissue treatment. On Thursday, the lauded label Luaka ...